It is often claimed\nthat the Scandinavian countries during the twentieth century were pioneers in\ndemocratic development, peace-making and political arbitration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the same time,\nthe idea of Sweden as conveyor of a peace-keeping and consensus oriented political\ntradition in contrast to a troubled and chaotic surrounding world is today\nregarded as antiquated. In other words, there is a need for more concrete\nstudies to analyze the lines of conflict in the Swedish relations to the\nsurrounding world and what impact these lines of conflict have had in later\ndevelopments, both in Swedish politics and in the Swedish relations to foreign\ncountries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The focus of the\nproposed project is to study, in connection with the upcoming centenary of the\nFinnish civil war, how the Swedish political sphere during the last stages of\nWorld War 1 dealt with the conflict in its eastern neighbor country and also\nhow this complex and brutal process in Finland influenced the Swedish political\narena and society. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So far a more\ncomprehensive study of the Finnish civil war in its international context has\nbeen lacking. The ambition of the proposed project is to contextualize the\nSwedish discussion of ideas and the ideological debate on modernization and the\nfuture role of Sweden in the Baltic region in a transnational perspective where\nthe international networks and contacts of the various Swedish political\norientations are researched in a broader context. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The concept of political sphere, or arena,\nrefers in this study to the right wing activists as well as the financial\nsector and bourgeois parties and their contacts with their German and Finnish\ncounterparts, and also to the parties and organizations of the Swedish workers\nmovement and their counterparts in Germany, Finland, and, to some extent, in\nRussia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The aim of the proposed study is thus to\nbring forward new knowledge about Sweden\u2019s position in the Baltic area during\nthe last stages of World War 1 and what part the Finnish Civil War played in\ndefining and polarizing the conflicting lines on how to modernize society in\nSweden. The source material in the study consists of the archives of the\npolitical organizations and movements, of personal archives, and of press\nclippings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-631","project","type-project","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n