After 1944 Communists were a factor to consider for a few decades, and the Finnish People's Democratic League, formed by Communists and others to the left of Social Democrats, even was the largest party after 1958 elections.

The Finnish labour movement, which emerged at the end of the 19th century from folk, temperance, and religious movements, as well as fennomania, had a Finnish nationalist, working-class character, and was represented by the Social Democratic Party, established in 1899.

The non-socialist majority in the new Finnish Parliament took power on 15 November, on the model of the Power Act of the socialists in July 1917, and promptly accepted the Social Democratic proposals from July 1917 for an eight-hour working day and universal suffrage in local elections.

In domestic policy the People's Delegation sought socialism based on the Finnish Social Democratic ethos ; their vision of democratic socialism for the country differed sharply from Lenin's dictatorship of the proletariat.

Simultaneously, Stalin set up a puppet government in the Finnish Democratic Republic.

He also served as Speaker of the Parliament of Finland from 2003 – 2007 and was his party's nominee in the 2012 Finnish presidential election but received only 6. 7 % of the votes, making it the biggest defeat the Social Democratic Party has ever had in Finnish Presidential elections.

In 1971 she joined the Social Democratic Party and worked as a lawyer in the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions until she was elected to parliament in 1979.

In early 1970 she was elected to represent Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions in a committee that called for the recognition of the German Democratic Republic.

As an employee of the Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions, Halonen advocated diplomatic recognition of the German Democratic Republic.

That year, he was supported by five political parties: the Centre Party, the Social Democrats, the Social Democratic Union of Workers and Smallholders ( a short-lived SDP faction ), the Finnish People's Democratic League ( a communist front ), and the Swedish People's Party.

** In the Finnish parliamentary election, the Centre Party wins 55 of 200 seats in the Parliament of Finland, ending 25 years of dominance by the Social Democratic Party of Finland.

The Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions ( Suomen Ammattiliittojen Keskusjärjestö, SAK ) and the Social Democratic Party are associated with the Labour Institute for Economic Research ( Palkansaajien tutkimuslaitos, PT ).

* Finland ( Democratic Union of Finnish Pioneers )

* Finnish Democratic Republic ( 1939 – 1940 )-The Finnish Democratic Republic ( Suomen Kansanvaltainen Tasavalta ) was a short-lived Soviet puppet regime in those minor parts of Finland that were occupied by the Soviet Union during the Winter War.

Internationally the ARP was very similar to the Scandinavian Christian Democratic parties ( such as the Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and the Finnish Christian Democrats ), that are all socially and fiscally conservative, with a social heart.

In 1949, trade unions controlled by the communists attempted to topple Karl-August Fagerholm's Social Democrat minority government, and the Social Democratic leadership of the Finnish Confederation of Trade Unions ( SAK ) declared the port of Hanko an " open site ", urging port workers who supported legality to go to Hanko.

At the critical moment, however, Koivisto received support from the Finnish People's Democratic League, and Kekkonen no longer had the energy to topple the government when Koivisto called the bluff by refusing to tender his resignation.

Finnish historians, political scientists and journalists still debate whether President Kekkonen really wanted to dismiss Prime Minister Koivisto or whether Kekkonen wanted to speed up Koivisto's slow and ponderous decision-making or whether this government crisis was just a part of the ruthless " presidential game " that top politicians, such as Koivisto, Foreign Minister Väyrynen, Social Democratic Chairman Sorsa, acting Governor of the Bank of Finland Karjalainen, and Parliamentary Speaker Virolainen, were playing ( see, for example, Pekka Hyvärinen, " Finland's Man: Urho Kekkonen's Life " / Suomen mies.

Red Finland, later named the Finnish Socialist Workers ' Republic, was led by the People's Delegation, established on 28 January, in Helsinki.

Altogether, almost half a million pages of verse have been collected and archived by the Finnish Literature Society and other collectors in Estonia and the Republic of Karelia.

Republic of Karelia | Karelian poem singing brothers Poavila and Triihvo Jamanen reciting traditional Finnish folk poetry, Russia, 1894.

Lake Ladoga ( or ; in Finnish Nevajärvi ; ) is a freshwater lake located in the Republic of Karelia and Leningrad Oblast in northwestern Russia, not far from Saint Petersburg.

In 1939, the Soviet Union unsuccessfully attempted an invasion of Finland, subsequent to which the parties entered into an interim peace treaty granting the Soviet Union the eastern region of Karelia ( 10 % of Finnish territory ), and the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic was established by merging the ceded territories with the KASSR.

In the aftermath of WWII on the Soviet-Finnish border, the parties signed another peace treaty ceding to the Soviet Union in 1944, followed by a Soviet annexation of roughly the same eastern Finnish territories as those of the prior interim peace treaty as part of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic.

His counterpart in the Finnish Socialist Workers ' Republic was Otto Ville Kuusinen.

From 1940 it was made into the Karelo-Finnish SSR, incorporating the Finnish Democratic Republic which nominally operated in those parts of Finnish Karelia that were occupied by the Soviet Union during the Winter War.

Nowadays the county is divided between Finnish regions of North Karelia and South Karelia and the Russian Republic of Karelia.

The Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic was set up on March 31, 1940 by merging the KASSR with the Finnish Democratic Republic ( created in territory ceded by Finland in the Winter War by the Moscow Peace Treaty, namely the Karelian Isthmus and Ladoga Karelia, including the cities of Viipuri and Sortavala ).

Some later historians explained the elevation of Soviet Karelia from an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic ( within the RSFSR ) to a SSR by political reasons, as a " convenient means for facilitating the possible incorporation of additional Finnish territory " ( or, possibly, the whole of Finland ) into the USSR.

** Finnish Socialist Workers ' Republic ( January – April 1918 ) in the south of Finland only: Social Democratic Party of Finland.

When the World War ended and the Kaiser fled, the Finnish monarchy was replaced by the Finnish Republic and Baron Mannerheim returned.

During the night the executive committee of the Red Guards declared the Finnish Socialist Workers ' Republic in Helsinki.

The term " Altaic ", as the name for a language family, was introduced in 1844 by Matthias Castrén, a pioneering Finnish philologist who made major contributions to the study of the Uralic languages.

Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto ( February 3 1898, Kuortane – May 11 1976, Helsinki ) was a Finnish architect and designer.

Colonel Kari Renko, an engineer at the Finnish Air Force, was quoted by Helsingin Sanomat as saying about this failure, " The problem involves the rocket engines which have been in use for decades " and that Finland first was told of the problems by the Americans about two years ago.

* In addition, Finnish, a Baltic-Finnic language, has calqued the Swedish term as Itämeri " East Sea ", disregarding the geography ( the sea is west of Finland ), though understandably since Finland was a part of Sweden from the Middle Ages until 1809.

The artist who toppled the first stone was the Finnish acrobat Salima Peippo.

The first major Finnish encyclopedia was Tietosanakirja ( 11 volumes, 1909 – 1922 ).

Until the 1930s, the Finnish economy was predominantly agrarian, and, as late as in the 1950s, more than half the population and 40 percent of output were still in the primary sector.

Discontent with Russian rule, Finnish national identity, and World War I eventually caused Finland to break away from Russia, taking advantage of the fact that Russia was withdrawing from World War I and a revolution was starting in earnest.

The Finnish Civil War (; ) was a part of the national, political and social turmoil caused by World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ) in Europe.

It was gradually developing into what would become the Finnish state, including a marked rise of the Fennoman movement representing the Finnic part of the nation.

By 1917 Finland had experienced rapid population growth, industrialization, improvements in the economy and standard of living, and the rise of a comprehensive labor movement ; economic, social, and political divisions were deepening while the Finnish political system was in an unstable phase of democratization and modernization.

The shift to the peaceful development of Finnish society was facilitated by the outcome of World War I, the marked post-war economic progress and recovery, and by the pre-1918 cultural and national unity of the majority of the nation.

The improvement in the status of the Finnish language was especially striking.

These developments also encouraged Finnish nationalism and cultural unity through the birth of the Fennoman movement, which bound the Finns to the domestic governmental system and led to the idea that the Finnish Grand Duchy was an increasingly autonomous part of the Russian Empire.

During World War I and the rise of Germanism, the ( Svecomans ) began covert collaboration with Imperial Germany, and from 1915 – 1917 a " Jäger " ( Jääkärit ) battalion consisting of 1, 900 Finnish volunteers was trained in Germany.

This was a reaction to the domestic dispute, ongoing since the 1880s, between the Finnish nobility-burghers and the labor movement concerning voting rights for the common people.

The reform of 1906 was a giant leap in the political and social liberalization of the common Finnish people.

Autonomous status was returned to the Finns in March 1917, and the revolt in Russia handed the Finnish Parliament true political power for the first time.

In Parliament, the bill was adopted with the support of the Social Democrats, the Agrarian League, and some rightist activists and other non-socialists eager for Finnish sovereignty.