Karelian Labor Commune
Karelian Labour Commune | |||||||||
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| 1920-1923 | |||||||||
Area claimed and controlled by the Karelian Labor Commune | |||||||||
| Capital | Petrozavodsk | ||||||||
| Administrative centers | Petrozavodsk & Olonets | ||||||||
| Official languages | Finnish Russian | ||||||||
| Government | |||||||||
• Chairman | Edvard Gylling | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 8 June 1920 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 25 July 1923 | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1920 census | 145,753 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Republic of Karelia as a subject of Russian Federation | ||||||||
The Karelian Labour Commune was an autonomous region of Russia established in 1920 following the successes of the Red Army's incursion into the Republic of Uhtua, to undermine and discredit the separatist movements and to make Finland give up on attempting to liberate East Karelia shortly before the beginning of negotiations for the Treaty of Tartu and during the Kinship Wars. Edvard Gylling and Yrjö Sirola, former members of the executive organ of the rebel Reds in the Finnish Civil War 1918, the Finnish People's Delegation, met with Vladimir Lenin in the Kremlin to propose autonomy for East Karelia within Russia. The Commune was founded on 8 June 1920 and was disestablished on 25 July 1923 and succeeded by the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, following the end of the Kinship Wars.