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history of Finland
Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Earliest peoples
  • Competition for trade and converts
  • Finland under Swedish rule
    • Union with Sweden
    • The 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries in Finland
    • The 18th century
  • Autonomous grand duchy of Finland
    • The era of bureaucracy
    • Reforms of the Russian period
      • The language problem
      • Reform of the Diet and other reforms
  • The struggle for Finnish independence
    • Resistance and reform
    • Return to autonomy
  • Early Finnish independence
    • Political change
    • Agrarian reform
    • Political parties
    • The language question in Finland
    • Foreign policy
  • Finland during World War II
    • The Winter War
    • Cooperation with Germany
  • The postwar period
    • Foreign policy
    • Nordic cooperation
    • Domestic affairs
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