The Age of Finlandization - An Uncritical Era?

November 18. Dissenters in the Kekkonen era

Foreign policy during the YYA period was uniform, and there was little room for criticism of the official line. Yet not everyone submitted to Kekkonen and the Soviet Union. The lecture examines what kind of people these foreign policy dissenters were and what enabled their exceptional activities.
Dr. Riku Keski-Rauska, historian

November 25. Finlandization and Finnish media

The lecture reviews how Finnish media approached the Soviet Union in the decades after the wars. Special focus is on Helsingin Sanomat and Yleisradio.
Docent Jukka Kortti, non-fiction author

Free admission, no registration required.