Imagined, Negotiated, Remembered: Constructing European Borders and Borderlands (Studies on Middle and Eastern Europe / Mittel- und Ostmitteleuropastudien)

Kimmo Katajala and Maria Lähteenmäki Imagined, Negotiated, Remembered – Foreword ................. 7 Constructing the Pre-Modern Borders Mikhail Krom Changing Allegiances in the Age of State Building: The Border between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Grand Principality of Moscow ........................... 15 Jens Lerbom The Spaces and Boundaries of the Realm: Sweden in the Early Modern Popular Mind ..................... 31 Jukka Kokkonen Border Peace Agreements: Local Attempts to Regulate Early Modern Border Conflicts ..................... 47 Jens Petter Nielsen and Konstantin Zaikov Norway’s Hard and Soft Borders towards Russia............... 67 On the Borderland of East and West – the Karelia-case Kimmo Katajala From Conflict to Cooperation: Paradigm Changes in Finnish Research into the History of Karelia and the Eastern Border .................................................... 87 Maria Lähteenmäki Cows, Guns and Bolsheviks: Smuggling in the Borderland between South-East Finland and St. Petersburg ................... 119 Olga Ilyukha Finns in Russian Karelia: Transformation of the History of a National Minority ........................................... 141 Anna Laakkonen Red Finns Building a Picture of White Finland as the Enemy: The Rhetoric of a Finnish-Language Newspaper in Soviet Karelia ...................................................................... 151 ‘Us’ and ‘Others’ on Both Sides of the Post-War Borders Hallvard Tjelmeland Border as Barrier and Bridge: The Norwegian-Soviet/Russian Border as a Political and Cultural Construction ..... 167 Katarzyna Stokłosa Conflicts and Potential on Poland’s Eastern Borders: the Example of the Polish-Russian and Polish-Ukrainian Border Regions ................................................................... 187 Gerhard Besier German-Polish Neighbourhood Relations on the Shared Border: An Ambiguous Story .............................................. 197 Monica Andriescu The Politics of Identity: Hungarian Language and Autonomy Claims in Post-Communist Romania ................ 215