The Finnish Communist Party and neutrality

• Published in: Government and Opposition
• Main Author: Hodgson, John H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1967
• Subjects: Public Administration; Sociology and Political Science; karelian
• 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

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.