People of the Revolution and the USSR
Social movements and organizing
Background: Finland
The revolutionary wave and the world war 1917–1945
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- Oskari Tokoi Oskari Tokoi Finnish labour leader who became the world’s first Social Democratic head of government and then joined the Red government
- Eero Haapalainen Eero Haapalainen Trade union leader who commanded the Finnish Red Guards from January to March 1918
- Ali Aaltonen Ali Aaltonen Labour journalist and former Russian army officer who became the first commander-in-chief of the Finnish Red Guards
- Eino Rahja Eino Rahja Petrograd Finnish Bolshevik who helped Lenin escape to Finland in 1917 and sat on the Red Guards’ three-man command in 1918