L'oeuvre Demi-Séculaire de la Societé de Littérature Finnoise et Le Mouvement National en Finlande de 1831 a 1881 [The Semi-Secular Work of the Finnish Literature Society and the Finnish National Movement 1831-1881]

Helsinki: Société de literature finnoise, 1882. Octavo (22 × 14 cm). Original printed wrappers; 127 pp. Small tape repair to head of spine; else about very good. A history of the Finnish nationalist movement during the relatively liberal reign of Alexander II over the Grand Duchy of Finland, written by the historian Ernst Gustaf Palmén (1849-1919). While officially a part of the Russian Empire since 1808, Finland was autonomous and able to maintain cultural and linguistic independence, which developed into a nationalist revival. The text was published in French for political reasons soon after the ascent of reactionary Alexander III to the Russian throne in 1881, which started a period of rampant Russification of Finland and the Baltic states. As of June 2020 KVK and OCLC show copies at the Austrian National Likbrary, Basel, Herder Institute (Marburg), the British Library, the Danish National Library, the Swedish National Library.