Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim was one of the most important figures in Finland’s history. For over half a century, he was directly involved in the most important moments of his country’s history. From the creation of the Finnish state and the Civil War, as military...
Shortly after the proclamation of Finland’s independence (December 6, 1917) and the recognition of the new state by Soviet Russia, France, Sweden and the German Empire (January 4, 1918), the Finnish diet proclaimed the country’s neutrality (January 8). However,...
Finland’s independence was made possible by the Russian Revolution of February-March 1917. Proclaimed at the end of 1917, after the “Great Socialist Revolution of October”, Finland’s independence was not immediately recognized by other European states. Paradoxically,...
We’ve all heard about Marxism, about the Russian Revolution, about Saint Petersburg. We also know all too well what the revolution ultimately led to: communism. But what was the basis for the USSR? Where did it actually come from? And when? Was it all because of that...
At the beginning of the First World War, Finland was an autonomous Great Duchy within the Russian Empire. Even though the Finnish territory was spared of most of the fighting, it witnessed a series of military operations for three and a half months during the Civil...
The origin of Finns is still a controversial issue among specialists. Generally, archaeologists and linguists agree that a population speaking an ancient Baltic-Finnish language has occupied the southern and western parts of Finland’s current territory since...