The Darkest Evening
University of Minnesota Press, 2011
Paper: 978-0-8166-7568-5
Library of Congress Classification PZ7.D9323Dar 2011
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Paper: 978-0-8166-7568-5
Library of Congress Classification PZ7.D9323Dar 2011
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Instead of finding the utopia they were promised, Jake and his family encounter only disappointment and hardship. When Stalin’s secret police begin targeting Americans for arrest, his worst fears are confirmed, and Jake leads his family on a daring midwinter escape attempt on cross-country skis, fleeing toward the Finnish border.
In the 1930s, some 6,000 Finnish Americans traveled to Karelia, a province in Northwestern Russia, hoping to leave the Depression behind and to establish a workers’ paradise. Based on these true events, The Darkest Evening chronicles the story of Jake Maki, whose father, caught up in the socialist fervor washing over their Finnish mining community in Minnesota, moves their family to the Soviet Union.
Instead of finding the utopia they were promised, Jake and his family encounter only disappointment and hardship. When Stalin’s secret police begin targeting Americans for arrest, his worst fears are confirmed, and Jake leads his family on a daring midwinter escape attempt on cross-country skis, fleeing toward the Finnish border.
See other books on: Communism | Finnish Americans | Juvenile fiction | Karelia | Russia (Federation)
See other titles from University of Minnesota Press
