Hello everyone! I hope you all are having a great holiday season. This is the 2024 recap where I will be going over the state of the Beneath The Red Star Podcast, discussing the previous year for the show, where it is now and what you can expect in the year to come.

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Today we will be discussing the history of Finland in relation to Russia. We will be discussing Finland's history as a part of the Russian Empire and as an independent nation and its relationship with the USSR and the Russian Federation.

Sources:

Finland: ⁠https://www.jstor.org/stable/1945868⁠

Reich Security Main Office (RSHA): ⁠https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/reich-security-main-office-rsha⁠

Nordic Council of Ministers: ⁠https://www.britannica.com/topic/Nordic-Council-of-Ministers⁠

History of Finland: ⁠https://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-Finland⁠

Sweden Officially Joins NATO: ⁠https://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-Finland⁠

Relations With Finland: ⁠https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_49594.htm⁠

“The Plan to Rescue Finnish Jews in 1944" by Simo Muir

The Holocaust as Active Memory: The Past in the Present by Irene Levin

Finland at war: The Winter War 1939 – 1940 by Peter Munter and Toni Wirtanen

Hello and welcome to the most newest episode of Beneath the Red Star! Today we are discussing the Trans-Siberian Railroad and its history. Grab a seat next to a random stranger and let's head out across Siberia.

Sources:

The Russian Discovery of Siberia: https://www.loc.gov/collections/meeting-of-frontiers/articles-and-essays/exploration/russian-discovery-of-siberia/

Trans-Siberian Railroad: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Trans-Siberian-Railroad

From Kiachta to Vladivostok: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43737542

https://www.jstor.org/stable/43737542

Some Economic Aspects of Railroad Development in Tsarist Russia: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2117164 Rossia Siberica: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40241735

A Russian Pacific Railroad: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1762931

Russian Railway Construction and the Urals Charcoal Iron and Steel Industry, 1851-1914: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2599467 A Century of Russian Railroad Construction: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2491700 History of the Trans-Siberian Railway: https://www.transsiberianexpress.net/train-info/history-of-the-trans-siberian-railway

Blame the Switchman?: https://www.justice.gov/atr/blame-switchman-russian-railways-restructuring-after-ten-years

All country and continent sizes taken from Encyclopedia Brittanica