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Alapuro offers an adept, lucid, and original analysis of class struggle and political change in small countries. His analysis is rich with implications for the contemporary world. Theoretically alert without resort to pomp or jargon, his book provides a remarkable synthesis of recent efforts to understand the connections between domestic politics and the international system. - Charles Tilly, New School for Social Research From the reviews of the first edition: I very strongly recommend this fine book to all comparative social scientists interested in European political development, revolutions, state building, or nationalism. - John D. Stephens, American Journal of Sociology The merit of Alapuro's book lies (...) in his use of familiar material to produce an explanatory model that can both give a coherent explanation of the pattern of Finland's development and be used to generate generalizations, on a comparative basis, about the politics of small nation states. - Anthony F. Upton, The American Historical Review Alapuro demonstrates so beautifully the rich context which sets Finnish political development apart from the other small countries and for that the reader should be truly grateful. - Francis G. Castles, Acta Sociologica [T]he book has a richness [?, loedighet] that will be difficult for others to achieve. [ boken har en loedighet som det kommer att bli svart foer andra att na upp till ]. - David Kirby, Historisk Tidskrift foer Finland Alapuro presents a richly documented and analytically sophisticated case study of a unique nation-state, Western in its class structure but similar to Eastern European states in terms of its dependency. - Peter Kivisto, Contemporary Sociology It is a marvelous book. - Jorunn Bjorgum, Journal of Social History

I very strongly recommend this fine book to all comparative social scientists interested in European political development, revolutions, state building, or nationalism. Jon D. Stephens (American Journal of Sociology) The merit of Alapuro's book lies (...) in his use of familiar material to produce an explanatory model that can both give a coherent explanation of the pattern of Finland's development and be used to generate generalizations, on a comparative basis, about the politics of small nation states. - Anthony F. Upton (The American Historical Review) Alapuro demonstrates so beautifully the rich context which sets Finnish political development apart from the other small countries and for that the reader should be truly grateful. Francis G. Castles (Acta Sociologica) [T]he book has a richness [?, loedighet] that will be difficult for others to achieve. [ boken har en loedighet som det kommer att bli svart foer andra att na upp till ]. - David Kirby (Historisk Tidskrift foer Finland) Alapuro presents a richly documented and analytically sophisticated case study of a unique nation-state, Western in its class structure but similar to Eastern European states in terms of its dependency. - Peter Kivisto (Contemporary Sociology) It is a marvelous book. - Jorunn Bjorgum (Journal of Social History) Alapuro offers an adept, lucid, and original analysis of class struggle and political change in small countries. His analysis is rich with implications for the contemporary world. Theoretically alert without resort to pomp or jargon, his book provides a remarkable synthesis of recent efforts to understand the connections between domestic politics and the international system. - Charles Tilly, New School for Social Research

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Risto Alapuro, Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Helsinki (1973), is (retired) Professor of Sociology at the University of Helsinki. He co-edited recent publications Political Theory and Community-Building in Post-Soviet Russia (Routledge, 2011) and Nordic Associations in a European Perspective (Nomos, 2010).

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