Background: Finland — People | Cyber-Lenin

Background: Finland

27 people

By birth A–Z List Cards

Pehr Evind Svinhufvud Pehr Evind Svinhufvud Head of the Finnish Senate who declared independence and sought German intervention in the civil war Government and administration · Finland state institutions 1861–1944
Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg Jurist who shaped Finland’s republican constitution and, as its first president, sought to reconcile the defeated Reds Government and administration · Finland state institutions 1865–1952
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim Aristocratic soldier who rose from Russian Imperial lieutenant general to Marshal of Finland, facing the Soviet Union in two wars Military command · Finland state institutions 1867–1951
Väinö Voionmaa Väinö Voionmaa A historian who linked scholarship with social democracy Scholarship and theory 1869–1947
Juho Kusti Paasikivi Juho Kusti Paasikivi Finnish realist who faced Stalin at the 1939 Moscow negotiations and later forged the Paasikivi doctrine of Cold War neutrality Diplomacy and international organization · Finland state institutions 1870–1956
Kyösti Kallio Kyösti Kallio A president shaped by agrarian reform and wartime compromise Agriculture and land policy · Finland state institutions 1873–1940
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
Rudolf Walden Karl Rudolf Walden A military organizer who bridged industry and war Industry and production 1878–1946
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
Otto Wille Kuusinen Otto Wille Kuusinen From Finnish labour leader to Comintern veteran and Khrushchev's theoretician Diplomacy and international organization · Comintern 1881–1964
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
Ali Aaltonen Ali Aaltonen Labour journalist and former Russian army officer who became the first commander-in-chief of the Finnish Red Guards Military command · Social Democratic Party of Finland 1884–1918
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
Aarno Sakari Armas Yrjö-Koskinen Aarno Armas Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen Finland’s diplomat in Moscow on the eve of war Diplomacy and international organization · Finland state institutions 1885–1951
Risto Heikki Ryti Risto Ryti Finnish president who, as wartime prime minister, negotiated the Moscow Peace Treaty Government and administration · Finland state institutions 1889–1956
Erik Heinrichs Axel Erik Heinrichs A Finnish general at the boundary of war and diplomacy Military command · Finland state institutions 1890–1965
Hjalmar Fridolf Siilasvuo Hjalmar Fridolf Siilasvuo Finnish Jäger lieutenant general who destroyed two Soviet divisions at Suomussalmi with motti tactics Military command · Finland state institutions 1892–1947
Aksel Ivanovich Berg Аксель Иванович Берг Admiral-engineer who built Soviet radar and revived cybernetics Science and technology · Soviet Union state institutions 1893–1979
Jukka Rangell Jukka Rangell Prime minister who declared Finland at war in 1941 and was later convicted in the war-responsibility trials Economy, finance and planning · Finland state institutions 1894–1982
Eljas Erkko Eljas Erkko Finnish foreign minister who dismissed Stalin's demands as a bluff and overruled Mannerheim's counsel to compromise Diplomacy and international organization · Finland state institutions 1895–1965
Paavo Talvela Paavo Talvela Mannerheim's secret envoy to Berlin who brokered the German-Finnish military pact that led to the Continuation War Military command · Finland state institutions 1897–1973
Urho Kekkonen Urho Kekkonen The long-serving president who made neutrality a national strategy Government and administration · Finland state institutions 1900–1986
Gus Hall Gus Hall Finnish-American labor militant and CPUSA General Secretary for 41 years, Moscow loyalist, four-time presidential candidate Political and party leadership · Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 1910–2000
Susanne Dahlgren Susanne Dahlgren Finnish social anthropologist of southern Yemen and Aden Scholarship and theory ?–