Continued Violence and Troublesome Pasts: Post-war Europe between the Victors after the Second World War

Dr. Ville Kivimäki is an historian and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tampere, Finland. In his PhD thesis Battled Nerves: Finnish Soldiers’ War Experience, Trauma, and Military Psychiatry, 1941–44 (Åbo Akademi 2013), Kivimäki studied the emergence of ‘war neuroses’ and their treatment and conceptualizations in wartime Finland. His current research project is ‘Trauma before Trauma: Finnish War Veterans and the Posttraumatic Stress, 1945–55’. Beyond the questions of war trauma, Kivimäki has focused on the social and cultural history of war, on the history of masculinities, experiences, and emotions, and on the history of mentalities in the postwar era. For publications in English, see Finland in World War II: History, Memory, Interpretations, edited by Tiina Kinnunen & Ville Kivimäki (Brill 2012), for instance.

Dr. Petri Karonen ( http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6090-5504) is a professor of Finnish History at the University of Jyväskylä. He has studied, e.g., the Swedish state building process during the early modern period, political and nancial management of warfare, and the societal history of post-war crises from the sixteenth century to the post-1945 era. Karonen is the vice leader of the steering committee of the Finnish Center of Excellence in Historical Research, ‘History of Society: Re-thinking Finland 1400–2000’. He is currently leading a research group in a Finnish-Swedish research project ‘Demokratins drivkraer: Kontext och särdrag i Finlands och Sveriges demokratier 1890–2020’ (Driving Forces of Democracy: Patterns of Democratization in Finland and Sweden, 1890–2020). He has also written an overview of the history of Sweden and Finland in 1521–1809, Pohjoinen suurvalta, the fourth revised edition published in 2014.