The Grand Duchy of Finland
Three recurring themes dominate the Grand Duchy of Finland’s historical image. First, it is used as shorthand for Finland’s status as a modern autonomous state within the Russian Empire. Second, seen from a longer perspective covering the Swedish period, scholarly works tend to present it as an empt...
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| description | Three recurring themes dominate the Grand Duchy of Finland’s historical image. First, it is used as shorthand for Finland’s status as a modern autonomous state within the Russian Empire. Second, seen from a longer perspective covering the Swedish period, scholarly works tend to present it as an empty relic stemming from old listings of royal titles. Third, in more popular representations it is part of the imaginary realm of Sweden-Finland and predestined to become a nation state. This book strives to specify all these takes by investigating the historical meanings associated with the notion of grand duchy from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. It analyses different layers in the Swedish, Russian, and Finnish use of the concept, from medieval modes of princely power to modern ideas of national statehood in the light of the evolving history of the European concepts of state and nation. In Finland the ‘grand duchy’ was seldom rhetorically confronted as a symbol of the declining old order. Nor, however, was it a synonym for the ‘Emperor’s Finland’ and unbroken loyalty. Instead, its meaning was stretched in opposing directions as a frame for princely rule and an arena for representing the people. During its long history the Grand Duchy of Finland came to signify both Finland’s imperial dependence and its constitution as a separate state and nation – until the overstretched concept shattered in 1917, both from without and within. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1777562026-06-22T05:05:51Z The Grand Duchy of Finland Liikanen, Ilkka Marjanen, Jani Conceptual history Era of autonomy Forms of government Grand Duchy of Finland Historiography Period of Swedish rule in Finland thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DN Northern Europe, Scandinavia::1DNF Finland thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history Three recurring themes dominate the Grand Duchy of Finland’s historical image. First, it is used as shorthand for Finland’s status as a modern autonomous state within the Russian Empire. Second, seen from a longer perspective covering the Swedish period, scholarly works tend to present it as an empty relic stemming from old listings of royal titles. Third, in more popular representations it is part of the imaginary realm of Sweden-Finland and predestined to become a nation state. This book strives to specify all these takes by investigating the historical meanings associated with the notion of grand duchy from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. It analyses different layers in the Swedish, Russian, and Finnish use of the concept, from medieval modes of princely power to modern ideas of national statehood in the light of the evolving history of the European concepts of state and nation. In Finland the ‘grand duchy’ was seldom rhetorically confronted as a symbol of the declining old order. Nor, however, was it a synonym for the ‘Emperor’s Finland’ and unbroken loyalty. Instead, its meaning was stretched in opposing directions as a frame for princely rule and an arena for representing the people. During its long history the Grand Duchy of Finland came to signify both Finland’s imperial dependence and its constitution as a separate state and nation – until the overstretched concept shattered in 1917, both from without and within. 2026-06-22T05:05:49Z 2026-06-22T05:05:49Z 2026-06-21T16:05:07Z 2026 book book ONIX_20260621T103021_9789524270144_7 1458-526X (Print) 2669-9591 (Online) https://doi.org/10.21435/sfh.30 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/114386 9789524270144 9789524270120 9789524270137 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/177756 eng Studia Fennica Historica open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/114386/1/9789524270144.pdf Finnish Literature Society / SKS Finnish Literature Society/SKS 10.21435/sfh.30 10.21435/sfh.30 8ceefe60-b6e9-4502-8498-ff110bb0f062 9789524270144 9789524270120 9789524270137 Finnish Literature Society/SKS 323 Helsinki, Finland open access |
| spellingShingle | Conceptual history Era of autonomy Forms of government Grand Duchy of Finland Historiography Period of Swedish rule in Finland thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DN Northern Europe, Scandinavia::1DNF Finland thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history The Grand Duchy of Finland |
| title | The Grand Duchy of Finland |
| title_full | The Grand Duchy of Finland |
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| title_short | The Grand Duchy of Finland |
| title_sort | grand duchy of finland |
| topic | Conceptual history Era of autonomy Forms of government Grand Duchy of Finland Historiography Period of Swedish rule in Finland thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DN Northern Europe, Scandinavia::1DNF Finland thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history |
| topic_facet | Conceptual history Era of autonomy Forms of government Grand Duchy of Finland Historiography Period of Swedish rule in Finland thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DN Northern Europe, Scandinavia::1DNF Finland thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPH Political structure and processes thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history |
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