Sisu, “Even Through a Stone Wall”

Originally published in 1957, Sisu, “Even Through a Stone Wall” is the English-language edition of the memoirs of the Social Democratic premier of Finland of 1917, Oskari Tokoi. Included are his account of events in Helsinki and Russo-Finnish relations during 1917, the Finnish civil war, and the little-known story of the Finnish Legion’s role in the Allied intervention in North Russia. “‘sisu’…something that ‘surpasses fearlessness and extraordinary endurance...a kind of inner fire or superhuman