Osmo Tapio Jussila (14 March 1938 in

Haukipudas Haukipudas is a town and former municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Oulu and part of the Northern Ostrobothnia region. Its shore runs along the Gulf of Bothnia, with the river Kiiminkijoki running through the province. ...

– 15 March 2019), was a

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historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

. Jussila was 1980-83 assistant

professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who professes". Professors ...

in political history at Helsinki University and professor 1983-2001. He had in his research treated foremost the

Finland–Russia relations Finland–Russia relations have been conducted over many centuries, from wars between Sweden and Russia in the early 18th century, to the planned and realized creation and annexation of the Grand Duchy of Finland within the Russian Empire duri ...

. ''Suomen tie 1944-1948'' is a research about the acts of the Finnish communist party after the second world war.

Publications

* ''Nationalismi ja vallankumous venäläis-suomalaisissa suhteissa 1899-1914'' (1979) * ''Terijoen hallitus 1939-40'' (1985) * ''Suomen tie 1944-1948'' (1990)

References

* ''

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'', 2 (2004) {{DEFAULTSORT:Jussila, Osmo 1938 births 2019 deaths People from Haukipudas 20th-century Finnish historians