"Finland's Civil War 1918: Red & White Suomi and..." Topic

… the Kinship Wars, 1918-1922.

"Finland's Civil War (Suomen sisällissota) was one of the first major conflicts connected with the Russian Revolution and subsequent Civil War that was fought throughout the former Empire of Russia which began in October of 1917. Before and immediately after declaring independence from the Russian Empire on 6 December 1917, Finland (Suomi) had first flirted with an independent monarchy when the German Prince Charles Frederick of Hesse was elected King of Finland before the collapse of the German Empire in October 1917.

A republican government was established instead of monarchy by the politician and lawyer Pehr Evind Svinhufvud. Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg (b.1865-1952) became the first president of an independent Finnish Republic in the year 1919. There was mass opposition to the early post-independence government led by the "socialists" and the numerous Bolshevik-Communist supporters in Finland, mainly the Suomen Kommunistinen Puolue, the Finnish Communist Party (SDP) and its armed supporters, the Red Guard.

Worker's strikes had been common as were general strike organized by socialists and true "Red" Bolshevik supporters throughout 1917-1918. Small but violent clashes broke out between the Civil Guard known also as the "White" Guard and the Red Guards and their working class allies. The political and very early street struggles only added to brew of civil strife and anarchy fermenting within Finland's cities, towns, and countryside…"

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