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PHJ № 1 (37) 2023 – A. I. Rupasov. Soviet-Finnish negotiations on direct air communication, 1950–1960s

As long ago as 1945 the Allied Control Commission had authorised the Finnish side to carry out regular flights with several European countries. This raises the question why this permission was not followed by direct air traffic between Finland and the Soviet Union. It was only after N.S. Khrushchev’s visit to Scandinavia in 1964 that the Soviet side gave its consent for Aero to carry out flights to Leningrad. This article analyses the long-standing Soviet-Finnish negotiations on direct air links.

PHJ No 4 (36) 2022 – G.M.Ivanova. The quality of life of a Soviet person in the mid-1950s through the eyes of Finnish journalists

The article, based on materials from the TASS Bulletin of Foreign Official Information, reveals the details of the stay of a delegation of Finnish journalists in the Soviet Union in October 1954. Modern historical knowledge makes it possible to characterize the position of Finnish journalists as objective, and to recognize their assessment of the quality of life in the USSR as quite adequate.

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PHJ № 2 (34) 2022 — Ju. Moshnik. “THE HEROIC TALE OF THE RUSSIAN ENGELBREKT”. FILM IMAGE OF ALEXANDER NEVSKY IN THE PRE-WAR FINNISH PRESS

“Alexander Nevsky” was the only motion picture of S. M. Eisenstein and the last Soviet film that was released to the public in Finland before the start of the Soviet-Finnish (Winter) War of 1939–1940. Even before the premiere in Helsinki on August 20, 1939, the Finnish press published articles about Eisenstein’s creative work and the success of “Alexander Nevsky” at the Soviet box office. After the premiere screening, critical reviews of the film were placed on their pages by all the central newspapers of the country. The interest of Finnish film critics in Eisenstein’s new picture was due not only to the outstanding artistic merits of the film, brilliant camera work and acting, but, above all, the relevance of the issues raised in the film for the modern political agenda.

PHJ № 3 (35) 2022 – А. А. Komarov. The Soviet Union and Finland’s aspirations for neutrality

After World War II Finland started to promote actively the idea of its neutrality. In this way the Finnish political class tried to enhance its profile on the international arena and distance itself from the military clauses of the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual assistance signed by the USSR and Finland on April 6, 1948. The article examines the history of Soviet attitudes towards Finland’s desire to position itself as a neutral country.

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PHJ № 1 (33) 2022 — T. V. Andreeva. IN THE SERVICE OF RUSSIA: STATESMEN OF SWEDISH-FINNISH ORIGIN IN THE 19TH — EARLY 20TH CENTURIES

The article examines the political and official biographies of dignitaries — immigrants from Finland, who were in the 19th — early 20th centuries members of the State Council, studied the factors of their career growth in the structure of administrative institutions of the Russian Empire, identified the main principles of the personnel policy of the imperial government in the context of the highest Finnish bureaucracy, determined the socio-political rationale for its service in Russia. It has been demonstrated that the appointment of representatives of the highest bureaucracy of Finland in different periods of Russian history as members of the State Council, heads of the most important Russian ministries, was determined by both objective political processes associated with a special Finnish imperial policy and subjective preferences and personal relationships of representatives of the reigning dynasty.