- Risto Alapuro
Risto Sakari Alapuro, born
28 April 1944 inRuokolahti , is a Finnishsociologist . He wasprofessor in sociology atJyväskylä university 1986-1991, and has since 1991 been professor atHelsinki university .Alapuro is an internationally known social scientist who has focused on historical sociology in Finland. He has researched, studied and educated in
France ,Russia andUSA . His speciality is social movements, political conflicts and social networks.He wrote "
Akateeminen Karjala-Seura " in (1973). Amongst his other works are to be found "State and revolution in Finland" (1988), which concerns the Finnish civil war, and "Suomen synty paikallisena ilmiönä 1890-1933" (1994), which is about Finlands birth as a local phenomena.References
* "Uppslagsverket Finland, 1" (2003)
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