Tuomo Ilmari Polvinen Finnish

Finland

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 historian

Historian

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, PhD

PHD

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 1964.

Polvinen was an official 1957-1961|61 in the Finnish national archives in Helsinki, and 1970-1974|74 its chief. 1968-70 he was professor in general history at Tampere University and 1974-1992|92 professor on the subject at Helsinki University; research professor 1979-1989|89 and 1992-1995|95.

Polvinen has focused on the relations between Finland and Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

/Sovietunion. Amongst Polvinen's works are Suomi suurvaltain politiikassa 1941-44, which is about Finland in the context of great power politics, Venäjän vallankumous ja Suomi 1917-1920 (2 parts, 1967–71), which is about Russian revolution and Finland, Between East and West (1986), furthermore a work on Bobrikov as governor general in Finland, Imperial borderland (1995) and a great biography in five parts about president J.K. Paasikivi.