Education
Soikkanen has studied the working class movement and the social democratic partys history, and also the communal self-governments history in Finland.
Soikkanen has studied the working class movement and the social democratic partys history, and also the communal self-governments history in Finland.
Soikkanen was active in the study of Finland"s history 1962-1966 at the University of Turku, and 1967-1976 in economic and social history. Between 1976 and 1993 he was a professor in social history at Helsinki University. He has also published local historical works such as Varkauden historia (1963) and Sulkavan historia II (2002, with Paavo Seppänen).
