Finnish Civil War

The Finnish Civil War was a civil war in Finland in 1918 fought for the leadership and control of the country between White Finland and the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic during the country's transition from a grand duchy ruled by the Russian Empire to a fully independent state. The clashes took place in the context of the national, political, and social turmoil caused by World War I in Europe. The war was fought between the paramilitary Red Guards, led by a section of the Social Democratic Party with backup of the Russian bolsheviks and the paramilitary White Guards of the senate. General C. G. E. Mannerheim led the White Guards with major assistance by both the Finnish Jäger Battalion trained in Germany and the German Imperial Army, along the German goal to control Fennoscandia and Petrograd of Russia. The Reds composed of industrial and agrarian working class people controlled the cities and industrial centres of southern Finland. The Whites composed of land owners and the middle and upper class people controlled the rural central and northern Finland.

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Civil War of Finland; Suomen sisällissota
Otto von Brandenstein, August Wesley, Mihail Svetšnikov, Hannes Ignatius, Hjalmar Frisell, Karl Fredrik Wilkama, Verner Lehtimäki, Ernst Löfström, Whites, Martin Wetzer, Georgy Bulatsel, Adolf Taimi, Eero Haapalainen, Hugo Salmela, White Guard, Red Guards, Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic, Evert Eloranta, Eino Rahja, Ali Aaltonen, Kullervo Manner, Ernst Linder, Hans Kalm, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Hugo Meurer, Rüdiger von der Goltz, civil war, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Finland, 

Alma, Eure, Laine, Maki, Maki, 

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1918 Finnish Civil War

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1741 — 1743 Russo-Swedish War of 1741-1743

1807-09-02T00:00:00Z

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1807 — 1812 Anglo-Russian War

1939-11-30T00:00:00Z

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1939 — 1940 Winter War

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1944-09-19T00:00:00Z

1941 — 1944 Continuation War

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Helsingin jääkäriprikaati harjoittelee Kaisaniemen kentällä Helsingin valtauksen jälkeen - HK10000-2612 (musketti.M012-HK10000-2612)

Sodermann Arvo

Jaakariliike

Helsingin valtaus 1918. (hkm.HKMS000005-0000014h)

SeiskarinSuojeluskunta

Von der Goltz in Helsinki (cropped)

Tampereen taistelun aikana tuhoutunutta Tammelan kaupunginosaa (26696844330)

Valkoisten Thulin typ D -lentokone tuhoutuneena Näsijärven jäällä (26901633001)

Helsingin valtauksen jälkeen kuvattuja pommitusvaurioita - G42521 (hkm.HKMS000005-km0000nxrb)

Punaisten ruumiita Kalevankankaan hautausmaalla Tampereen taistelun jälkeen (26365985413)

• Tears of April - 2008 film by Aku Louhimies
• Tears of April - 2008 film by Aku Louhimies, 2009
• 1918: Brother Against Brother - board game, 1918
• Suomen vapaussota - 1918 board game of Finnish civil war, 2017
• Finska Inbördeskriget - episode of Historiepodden published on 10 December 2017 (E183), Swedish, 1938
• Viimeinen taisto - 1938 memoir by Jalmari Parikka, 2015
• Krev sněhu: (zpráva o průběhu finské občanské války v obci Rantasuu) - book edition published in 2015, Czech, 1919
• The Meat-Grinder - 1919 short story by Runar Schildt, Swedish

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
area	region	1917	Finland	country bordering the Baltic Sea, sovereign state, unitary state, country, tripadvisor	Wikidata
event	armed conflict		Savo Front	theater of war	Wikidata
event	war	1741	Russo-Swedish War of 1741-1743	Sweden, war, Russian Empire	Wikidata
event	war	1807	Anglo-Russian War	war, Russian Empire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	Wikidata
event	war	1918	Finnish Civil War	Ali Aaltonen, Eino Rahja, Ernst Linder, White Guard, Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic, Red Guards, Hjalmar Frisell, Hannes Ignatius, Mihail Svetšnikov, Hugo Salmela, Eero Haapalainen, Adolf Taimi, Georgy Bulatsel, Martin Wetzer, August Wesley, Otto von Brandenstein, Whites, Ernst Löfström, Verner Lehtimäki, Karl Fredrik Wilkama, Evert Eloranta, Finland, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, civil war, Rüdiger von der Goltz, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Hugo Meurer, Hans Kalm, Kullervo Manner	Wikidata
event	war	1939	Winter War	Finland, war, Soviet Union	Wikidata
event	war	1941	Continuation War	Finland, war, Nazi Germany, Soviet Union	Wikidata
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commons	image		Sodermann Arvo		Commons
commons	image		Jaakariliike		Commons
commons	image		Helsingin valtaus 1918. (hkm.HKMS000005-0000014h)		Commons
commons	image		SeiskarinSuojeluskunta		Commons
commons	image		Von der Goltz in Helsinki (cropped)		Commons
commons	image		Tampereen taistelun aikana tuhoutunutta Tammelan kaupunginosaa (26696844330)		Commons
commons	image		Valkoisten Thulin typ D -lentokone tuhoutuneena Näsijärven jäällä (26901633001)		Commons
commons	image		Helsingin valtauksen jälkeen kuvattuja pommitusvaurioita - G42521 (hkm.HKMS000005-km0000nxrb)		Commons
commons	image		Punaisten ruumiita Kalevankankaan hautausmaalla Tampereen taistelun jälkeen (26365985413)		Commons