Imagined, Negotiated, Remembered: Constructing European Borders and Borderlands

Kimmo Katajala and Maria Lähteenmäki
Imagined, Negotiated, Remembered – Foreword ................. 7


Constructing the Pre-Modern Borders
Mikhail Krom
Changing Allegiances in the Age of State Building: The Border between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Grand Principality of Moscow ........................... 15
Jens Lerbom
The Spaces and Boundaries of the Realm: Sweden in the Early Modern Popular Mind ..................... 31
Jukka Kokkonen
Border Peace Agreements: Local Attempts to Regulate Early Modern Border Conflicts ..................... 47
Jens Petter Nielsen and Konstantin Zaikov
Norway’s Hard and Soft Borders towards Russia............... 67


On the Borderland of East and West – the Karelia-case
Kimmo Katajala
From Conflict to Cooperation: Paradigm Changes in Finnish Research into the History of Karelia and the Eastern Border .................................................... 87
Maria Lähteenmäki
Cows, Guns and Bolsheviks: Smuggling in the Borderland between South-East Finland and St. Petersburg ................... 119
Olga Ilyukha
Finns in Russian Karelia: Transformation of the History of a National Minority ........................................... 141
Anna Laakkonen
Red Finns Building a Picture of White Finland as the Enemy: The Rhetoric of a Finnish-Language Newspaper in Soviet Karelia ...................................................................... 151


‘Us’ and ‘Others’ on Both Sides of the Post-War Borders
Hallvard Tjelmeland
Border as Barrier and Bridge: The Norwegian-Soviet/Russian Border as a Political and Cultural Construction ..... 167
Katarzyna Stokłosa
Conflicts and Potential on Poland’s Eastern Borders: the Example of the Polish-Russian and Polish-Ukrainian Border Regions
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Gerhard Besier
German-Polish Neighbourhood Relations on the Shared Border: An Ambiguous Story .............................................. 197
Monica Andriescu
The Politics of Identity: Hungarian Language and Autonomy Claims in Post-Communist Romania ................ 215