Jukka Nevakivi

Jukka Taneli Nevakivi, (8 October 1931 in Pudasjärvi), is a Finnish historian, Ph.D. 1963. He studied at the University of London, completing his Ph.D. in 1963. Nevakivi was a journalist 1954-63 for Kaleva and Suomen Kuvalehti, between 1963 and 1979 he served within the Finnish foreign département in Budapest, Cairo and Paris. In 1980-95 he was professor in political history at Helsinki University.

He published "Britain, France, and the Middle East, 1914-1920" in 1968, highlighting the development of Anglo-French relations in the Middle East during the peace settlement of 1919. He has also written extensively about dramatic events in the Finnish republics history. Amongst his productions are Muurmannin legioona (1970), The appeal that was never made (1976), which is about the West allies during the Finnish Winter War, andYstävistä vihollisiksi (1976), about Finland in British politics after the Winter War. He has also written some studies about the years after the second world war, including Zdanov Suomessa (1995) and Miten Kekkonen pääsi valtaan ja Suomi suomettui (1996). In 2000 he wrote again a book about the relationship between the West allies and Finland during the Winter War, Apu jota ei annettu (2000).