S. JUNGAR. Ryssland och den Svensk-Norska Unionens upplosning. Tsardiplomati och rysk-finlandsk pressopinion kring unionupplosningen fran 1880 till 1905. Abo Akademi. "Acta Academiae Aboensis". Ser. A. Humaniora. Vol. 37, N 3. Abo. 1969, sid. 197. S. JUNGAR. Russia and the breakup of the Swedish-Norwegian Union. Tsarist diplomacy and the attitude of the press in Russia and Finland to the Swedish-Norwegian conflict over the union from 1880 to 1905. Sune Jungar's work is of interest as a serious study of Russia's position on the issue of breaking the Swedish-Norwegian union. The author belongs to the younger generation of Finnish historians. In 1962-1963, he trained at Moscow University, and then repeatedly came to the USSR to study in archives and book repositories. The reviewed monograph is a doctoral dissertation written as a result of many years of painstaking scientific research and defended in 1969. The history of one of the central events in the life of Scandinavia, the Swedish-Norwegian Union, and especially its breakup, belongs to the most studied problems of Scandinavian history. However, the vast majority of research deals only with the domestic political aspect of this topic or, at best, with intra-Scandinavian relations. The international aspect is less well covered, which is clearly reflected in the traditional isolationist line of Scandinavian historiography, as well as the fact that one of its most persistent doctrines was the so-called scandi-centrism. These traditions are successfully overcome by S. Jungar, who seeks to give an objective study that is not bound by various kinds of prejudices, which seems all the more important since Russia's attitude to the fact of the breakup of the Swedish-Norwegian union in Scandinavia has not yet been actually studied. Even the prominent Swedish historian F. Lindbergh, who covered in his works the policy of England and Germany in this matter , 1 almost did not touch on the position of Russia. 1 F. Lindberg. Scand ... Read more