Hannu Soikkanen

Hannu Veli Soikkanen (4 August 1930 in Sippola), is a Finnish historian, PhD 1965. Soikkanen was active in the study of Finlands history 1962-66 at Turku University, and 1967-76 in economic and social history. Between 1976 and 1993 he was a professor in social history at Helsinki University.

Soikkanen has studied the working class movement and the socialdemocratic partys history, and also the communal self-governments history in Finland. Amongst his works are "Sosialismin tulo Suomeen" (1961), which i about the coming of socialism to Finland, "Kunnallinen itsehallinto kansanvallan perusteena" (1966), about the communes, "Kansalaissota dokumentteina" (1967-69), a selection of sources to the Finnish civil war 1918, "Luovutetun Karjalan työväenliikkeen historia" (1970), about the Carelian working class movement and "Kohti kansanvaltaa 1-3" (1975-91), which treats the socialdemocratic partys history up to 1952. He has also pulbished local historical works such as "Varkauden historia" (1963) and "Sulkavan historia II" (2002, with Paavo Seppänen).

References

* "Uppslagsverket Finland", 4 (2006)