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QUICK TO READ OVERVIEW on the Finnish Utopian Communities

INTRODUCTION

• Finnish Emigration and Utopian Communities

EARLY FINNISH UTOPIAN COMMUNITIES

• Eriksson's exile – Finnish Pietists as ship refugees in Europe (1734)

• New Jerusalem – A Philosophy of Enlightenment for African Blacks (1792)

• Amurland Expedition – Whaling in the Pacific East of Russia (1868)

BUILDERS OF “NEW FINLAND”

• Red Deer – Upper class gentlemen's migration plan in the Canadian Rockies (1899)

• Itabo Fruit Farmers – Activist Eero Erkko in Cuba (1904)

• Thesleff's Colonia Finlandesa – Argentina’s Paradise of Disappointment (1906)

FROM UTOPIAN SOCIALISM TO WORKERS' MOVEMENT

• Chillagoe Railway Camp – Matti Kurikka in Australia (1900)

• Sointula (The Harmony), B.C. – Kaleva People's Malcolm Island in Canada (1901)

• Sammon Takojat, B.C. – Male Utopian Dreams at the Fraser River (1905)

• Drummond Island, MI – From Copper Mines to Farmers (1903)

• Omaja “Ponnistus”, Cuba – Finnish Socialists in Cuba (1906)

PERIOD OF COOPERATIVE FARMS

• Californian Finnish Colony – Mainers from Butte go farming (1912)

• Georgian Cooperative Farm – Finns in the Deep South (1921)

• Commune Sower – Seattle Finns on the Soviet Black Sea (1922)

• Karelian Fever – American Finns helping to build Soviet Union (1920)

“TROPICAL FEVER” IN 1920s FINLAND

• Cooperative Paradiso – Bridge to the Riviera Sun (1925)

• Colonia Villa Alborada – Finnish peasants in Paraguay (1920)

• Fazenda Penedo – The Vegetarians of Uuskallio in Brazil (1929)

• Viljavakka – Tropical Fever Dream in the Dominican Republic (1930)

• Indian Reductions in Misiones – Jesuits and Innocent Children of God

FROM UTOPIAN COMMUNITIES TO ECO– COMMUNITIES

• Jad Hashmona – Finnish Christian Kibbutz in Israel (1971)

• Jokioinen Emmaus Community – An Early Green Movement in Finland (1977)

LESSONS LEARNED: COMMON AND NEW UTOPIAS

• The Century of ECO-Utopias – the Green Movement

• Technological Utopias – Virtual world, online communities, robots, cyborgs, space utopias

WORLD HISTORY OF UTOPIAN COMMUNITIES

• The world of Great Utopias: religions and political movements

• Utopias and Dystopias in the literature

• The Great Utopian Communities of history

• American Utopian communities

MAPS AND TABLES

SOURCES, LITERATURE AND LINKS

• Towards a Better World -video

• Radio programs on the Finnish Utopian settlements

• YouTube videos on the Finnish Utopian settlements

DISCUSSION FORUM

• Facebook group “Finnish Utopian Communities”