2008/01/01 by Tauno Saarela · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics
paper · doi:10.1057/9780230227583_10
openalex publication_date 2008/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
The terms Bolshevization and Stalinization have not been used to describe the development of Finnish communism in the interwar years because they have not been considered useful. This is not to deny the influence of the Russians or the new communist doctrine on the Finnish movement, but rather to avoid the simplification and finality that such concepts indicate. Emerging at the moment of Finland’s separation from the former Tsarist empire, Finnish communism was born at once in Finland and Soviet Russia and proved willing to adapt to Bolshevism. Counteracting these links, however, was an extensive movement by West European standards, and one that remained strongly committed to Finnish labour and socialist traditions, and to the problems of Finnish society. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.