People of the Revolution and the USSR
National Progressive Party (Finland)
Background: Finland
The revolutionary wave and the world war 1917–1945
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GlossaryNational Progressive Party (Finland)
- Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg Jurist who shaped Finland’s republican constitution and, as its first president, sought to reconcile the defeated Reds
- Aimo Cajander Aimo Cajander Finnish forest scientist and statesman who built forest-type theory and led the cabinet on the eve of war
- Risto Heikki Ryti Risto Ryti Finnish president who, as wartime prime minister, negotiated the Moscow Peace Treaty
- Jukka Rangell Jukka Rangell Prime minister who declared Finland at war in 1941 and was later convicted in the war-responsibility trials
- Eljas Erkko Eljas Erkko Finnish foreign minister who dismissed Stalin's demands as a bluff and overruled Mannerheim's counsel to compromise