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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 Government and administration · Finland state institutions 1873–1963
Aimo Cajander Aimo Cajander Finnish forest scientist and statesman who built forest-type theory and led the cabinet on the eve of war Government and administration · Finland state institutions 1879–1943
Eero Haapalainen Eero Haapalainen Trade union leader who commanded the Finnish Red Guards from January to March 1918 Military command · Communist Party of Finland (SKP) 1880–1937
Kullervo Achilles Manner Kullervo Achilles Manner Head of Finland's 1918 Red revolutionary government, who later led the exiled Communist Party and served the Comintern Political and party leadership · Social Democratic Party of Finland 1880–1939
Edvard Gylling Edvard Gylling Finnish socialist who was Red Finland’s commissar of finance and later headed the government of Soviet Karelia Government and administration · Soviet Union state institutions 1881–1938
Väinö Alfred Tanner Väinö Alfred Tanner The Social Democratic realist who faced Stalin as Finland's Winter War foreign minister, rising from the cooperative movement Political and party leadership · Social Democratic Party of Finland 1881–1966
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 Military command · Communist Party of Finland (SKP) 1885–1936