Finnish break: Revolution and the Civil War in Finland. 1917-1918 Popov D.A.

Finland in the Russian Empire for a long time had a huge autonomy. On the monument to Alexander II, “1863” was knocked out in Helsinki - the year when the Finnish language in the Grand Duchy of Finland became official. However, the Russification of the beginning of the XX century. It caused an unprecedented explosion of anti -Russian sentiments, and in 1918 the Red Finns lost in the civil war. Thus ended the centenary of the “Russian history” of Finland...

This book for the first time in all details restores the revolutionary events of 1917 and the fighting of the Civil War in Finland. The Russification under Nicholas II and the biography of the main participants in the Finnish revolution are considered in detail. The author puts forward an innovative hypothesis about the causes of the non -socialist policy of the Finnish revolutionary authorities. The book clearly shows the unusual nuances of Finland’s branches from Russia, the most severe terror in relation to the Red and Russians, including the ethnic cleaning of the Russian -speaking population of Vyborg, as well as the starting points that set the vector of the entire Russophobic Finnish policy.