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Karelian Brotherhood (Finnish: Karjalan veljeskunta, Russian: Карельское братство) was an organization founded in 1907 as a Russian Orthodox society. The goal of the organisation was to russify Karelias orthodox population. It had close ties to Russian nationalists in the State Duma.

The chief of the organization was Bishop Cyprian (Shnitnikov) [ru] of Serdobol Karjalan veljeskunta was dissolved when Finland obtained its independence in 1917.

References

  1. Ramet, Sabrina Petra (1988). Eastern Christianity and Politics in the Twentieth Century. Duke University Press. p. 269. ISBN 9780822308270.
  2. Chulos, Chris J.; Remy, Johannes (2002). Imperial and National Identities in Pre-revolutionary, Soviet, and Post-Soviet Russia. Finnish Literature Society. ISBN 9789517462655.
  3. Loima, Jyrki (2014). "A Case Study of Education and Nationalism: The Multicultural Fight for "Souls and Minds" in Finland, 1891–1921". The Historian. 76 (4): 750–765. doi:10.1111/hisn.12052. S2CID 142537776.


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