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Kullervo Manner

1880–1939 · 20th century

Kullervo Manner was a Finnish Social Democrat, speaker of parliament in 1917, who chaired the Finnish People's Delegation, the Red government during the Finnish Civil War of 1918. After the Reds were defeated he fled to Soviet Russia and helped found the Communist Party of Finland, which he later led. He was arrested in Stalin's purges and died in a labour camp.

Kullervo Manner
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Kullervo Manner. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/kullervo-manner
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