Communist Party of Finland




This article is about the historical Communist Party of Finland. For the current party, see Communist Party of Finland (1994).
Not to be confused with Communist Workers' Party – For Peace and Socialism.






















































Communist Party of Finland


Suomen Kommunistinen Puolue

Abbreviation SKP
Founded 29 August 1918 (1918-08-29)
Legalized 1944
Dissolved 1992 (1992)
Split from Social Democratic Party of Finland
Succeeded by


  • Left Alliance

  • Communist Party of Finland (1994)
Youth wing Young Communist League of Finland
Ideology


  • Marxism-Leninism

  • Eurocommunism


  • Taistoism (minority)
Political position Far-left
National affiliation
Finnish People's Democratic League (SKDL)
International affiliation Comintern
Colors Red

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The Communist Party of Finland (Finnish: Suomen Kommunistinen Puolue; Swedish: Finlands Kommunistiska Parti; abbreviated SKP) was a communist political party in Finland. The SKP was a section of Comintern and illegal in Finland until 1944.


The SKP did not participate in any elections with its own name. Instead, front organisations were used. In the 1920s the communists took part in the Socialist Workers' Party of Finland (1920–1923) and the Socialist Electoral Organisation of Workers and Smallholders (1924–1930). Both were banned by the state. In 1944, a new front, Finnish People's Democratic League was formed. The SKP controlled these fronts but they always had a prominent minority of non-communist socialists.




Contents






  • 1 History


    • 1.1 Early stages


    • 1.2 Cold War


    • 1.3 Aftermaths of the Prague Spring


    • 1.4 Collapse




  • 2 Youth wing


  • 3 Leaders


  • 4 See also


  • 5 References





History



Early stages


In 1918 the Reds lost the Finnish Civil War. The Social Democratic Party of Finland had supported the losing side, and several of its leaders were exiled in the Soviet Russia. Some of these exiles founded the Communist Party of Finland in Moscow.


The SKP was illegal in Finland until 1944, and members could be imprisoned. After the Continuation War the SKP dominated the Finnish People's Democratic League, which was founded in 1944 as an umbrella organization of the radical left wing.



Cold War


The era of the Cold War was the "golden age" of Communists in Finland. Between 1944 and 1979 support of the Finnish People's Democratic League was in the range of 17%–24%. Communists participated in several cabinets, but Finland never had a communist Prime Minister or President. In the mid 1960s the U.S. State Department estimated the party membership to be approximately 40 000 (1.44% of the working age population).[1] with the SKP's main rival for domination of the political left being the Social Democratic Party of Finland. The competition was very bitter in trade unions and other leftist organizations.


The SKP received substantial financial support from the Soviet Union during the Cold War (Rentola 1997, p. 177).
Internally, SKP was divided, with a Eurocommunist mainstream and a hardline Pro-Moscow minority, called the Taistoists after their leader, Taisto Sinisalo. The word "taisto" also means "battle" or "fight"; the double connotation made this slur, originally launched by the largest Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, stick. Soviet threats to withdraw support were the main reason why reformists didn't expel the Taistoists from the party leadership or membership.[citation needed]



Aftermaths of the Prague Spring


The events of the Prague Spring followed by the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia had strong repercussions on the SKP. With the SKP's leadership strongly denouncing the Soviets' invasion, the internal disputes became fiercer than ever. While the de facto Eurocommunist majority faction had always supported third-way policies, the Taistoist minority decisively stood by the Soviet Union and the Brezhnev doctrine.[2] Gradually this led to a disintegration, and in practice, the party now consisted of two parallel structures, and gradually lost ground in terms of public support.[3] The most hardline-leader of the party, Markus Kainulainen, led a group that even opposed Soviet policies after the Perestroika had begun.


In 1985–1986 a large number of Taistoists, hundreds of party organizations with thousands of members, were expelled. They regrouped as Communist Party of Finland (Unity) (SKPy) which later evolved into the current Communist Party of Finland (1994).



Collapse


The collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s led to ideological conflicts: bitter internal disputes plagued the party. Bad stock-market investments made during Aalto's term of office resulted in financial bankruptcy in 1992. The SKP never recovered. A majority of the party members, with other member-organizations of SKDL, formed the Left Alliance in 1990.


SKPy, originally the faction of the party expelled in 1985–1986, outlasted its parent and registered itself as the Communist Party of Finland in 1997, but has failed to regain the former Communist Party's parliamentary representation. In the elections of 2007 it won 0.7% of the vote; in April 2011, it won 0.3%.[4]



Youth wing


The youth wing of the SKP was the Communist Youth League of Finland (SKNL, 1925–1936). After World War II young communists were active in the SKDL's Democratic Youth League of Finland (SNDL). The SNDL was member of World Federation of Democratic Youth.



Leaders








Chairmen














































Yrjö Sirola
 1918–1920

Kullervo Manner
 1920–1935

Hannes Mäkinen
 1935–1937[5]

Jukka Lehtosaari
 1937–1938[5]

Aimo Aaltonen
 1944–1945 &
1948–1966

Aaro Uusitalo
 1945–1948

Aarne Saarinen
 1966–1982

Jouko Kajanoja
 1982–1984

Arvo Aalto
 1984–1988

Jarmo Wahlström
 1988–1990

Heljä Tammisola
 1990–1992

 
  
General secretaries


































Arvo Tuominen
 1935–1940

Ville Pessi
 1944–1969

Arvo Aalto
 1969–1977 &
1981–1984

Erkki Kivimäki
 1977–1981

Aarno Aitamurto
 1984–1985

Esko Vainionpää
 1985–1988

Heljä Tammisola
 1988–1990

Asko Mäki
 1990–1992



See also



  • Kaisu-Mirjami Rydberg


References





  1. ^ Benjamin, Roger W.; Kautsky, John H. Communism and Economic Development, in the American Political Science Review, vol. 62, no. 1. (Mar., 1968), pp. 122.


  2. ^ Tuomioja, Erkki (2008). "The Effects of the Prague Spring in Europe". Retrieved 2015-01-02..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  3. ^ Jakobson, Max (1998). "The Communist Split". Finland in the New Europe. CSIS Washington Papers. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. pp. 77ff. ISBN 0-275-96372-1.


  4. ^
    9.232 of 2.939.571 (Ministry of Justice Finland Archived 2011-04-20 at the Wayback Machine.)


  5. ^ ab Joni Krekola: Stalinismin lyhyt kurssi (SKS 2006), p. 108.




  • Rentola, Kimmo (1997), Niin kylmää että polttaa - Kommunistit, Kekkonen ja Kreml, Helsinki: Otava, ISBN 951-1-14497-9









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