The Finnish Communist Party and neutrality

In the summer of 1917, while under the protective wing of Finnish socialists, including Kustaa Rovio – chief of the Helsinki police force and later first secretary of the Communist Party apparatus in the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic – Lenin completed his treatise State and Revolutio...

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Published in:Government and Opposition
Main Author: Hodgson, John H.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1967
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-7053.1967.tb01166.x
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0017257X00012951
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Summary:In the summer of 1917, while under the protective wing of Finnish socialists, including Kustaa Rovio – chief of the Helsinki police force and later first secretary of the Communist Party apparatus in the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic – Lenin completed his treatise State and Revolution , rejecting with vehemence the notion that a capitalist nation could be transformed without violence into a higher form of society. The one possible exception was a small country sharing a common frontier with a large country which had already successfully undergone the transition.