The CivilWar was fought from the end of January until half of May 1918, between the "Reds" (punaiset), i.e.
The Finnish labour movement was born in the end of the nineteenth century from basis of folk and religious movements and had a "Finnish national, working class-orientated" character.
The number of Russian soldiers active in the CivilWar declined markedly after the Brest-Litovsk peace negotiations were halted and Germany attacked Soviet-Russia on February 18 1918, resulting as a total collapse of what was left of the former mighty Russian army.
The war was formally concluded by the Paris peace treaty of 1947.
Although the Continuation War was fought on the periphery of World War II and the troops engaged were relatively few, its history is intriguing as it challenges both conventional wisdom about the moral clarity of the Allied effort and the popular and academic theory that democratic countries do not wage war against each other.
Finnish II Corps had cut railroads between Viipuri and Sortavala August 6, and on August 8 Mannerheim formed the new I Corps from 19 Division, 7 Division and 2 Division, with the task to clear the western shore of Lake Ladoga.
CivilWar (college rivalry) and CivilWar (college football game), competitions between Oregon State University and the University of Oregon.
CivilWar, claimed to be a distinct variation of the drinking game Beer Pong.
CivilWars, a television legal drama that aired on ABC in the U.S. from 1991–1993.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Civil_War (268 words)
Finnish Civil War Encyclopedia Article @ HandOverFist.com (Hand Over Fist)(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Finnish labour movement was born in the end of the nineteenth century from basis of folk and religious movements and had a national character.
In addition, in the beginning of the CivilWar they resisted the military help by the Germans, but the prolonged warfare changed their opinion positive toward the German army.
The CivilWar was in many ways a major catastrophe for the Finnish nation and society.
Whether or not the civilwar was avoidable has been debated ever since, but both sides must share in the responsibility for its outbreak because of their unwillingness to compromise.
The civilwar was a catastrophe for Finland.
By comparison, the bloodiest war in the history of the United States, the CivilWar, cost the lives of about 2 percent of the population, but that loss was spread out over four years.
The civilwar of 1918 was, for Finland, a terrible ordeal.
The difference between the two civilwars is that in Spain the 'Whites' rebelled against the country's government, whereas in Finland the rebels were the 'Reds'.The Spaniards, too, lost about one per cent of their population, but they lost it over a period of three years, not three months.
First, civilwars are not uncommon in newly independent countries, because it must be decided by whom and how the state is to be governed, and with the support of which external powers.
The CivilWar was fought from the end of January until half of May 1918, between the "Reds"?title=(punaiset), i.e.
The Finnish labour movement was born in the end of the nineteenth century from basis of folk and religious movements and had a "Finnish national, working class-orientated"?title=character.
Both the FinnishConservatives and the Russian Provisional Government opposed the "Power Act"?title=as it would decrease their political power.
Brother fought against brother in a war that was almost inevitable because of the class tensions in Finnish society.
In comparison, in the bloodiest war in the history of the United States, the CivilWar, 2 per cent of the population was killed, but in over four years of warfare.
Thus, the CivilWar was a catastrophe for Finland.
www.uta.fi /~ss77195/war1.html (3679 words)
Civil War Article, CivilWar Information(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A civilwar is a violent conflict in which the competing parties are segments of the same country or empire.
Civilwar isusually a high intensity stage in an unresolved political struggle for nationalcontrol of state power.
Some civilwars are also categorized as revolutions when major societal restructuring is a possible outcome of theconflict.
The FinnishCivilWar is still such a controversial topic today that bringing it up may cause disagreement even among family members.
Another thing which demonstrates the visibility of the FinnishCivilWar still today is the recent suggestions that have been made in Tampere to erect other memorials to the FinnishCivilWar.
The FinnishCivilWar was almost a taboo subject, so people expected that negative things would be brought up in the discussion about the book.
A civilwar is a war in which the parties are segments of the same country or empire.
The contention is often over matters of religion, ethnicity, or politics, but is sometimes simply a struggle for power between two or more rival groups.
There were also several major civilwars in the Roman Empire.
The source materials about this war are far from good and as nobody has written a book about Finnish armoured trains the information had to be gathered from variety of sources (which are listed in the last page).
FinnishCivilWar was fought between end of January to mid-May, which means it started at winter and ended at spring.
During the CivilWar the Reds were able to armour 6 - 7 steam locomotives and 12 - 13 flatcars ("O-wagons") in Fredriksberg plus 2 steam locomotives and 2 flatcars ("O-wagons") in Viipuri.
I know it is a Finnish trait and I have my definition but would like to hear what you think.
It was a time period that fascinates me as my grandfather fought in the war on the red side...
Finnish Hollywood: Courtesy of Anonymous, quite an impressive listing of "Finnish artists in contemporary Hollywood and in international cinema and TV".
The war against Japan greatly sapped the KMT's military resource, and Chiang's own central army was never to recover from the devastating losses it had sustained in the early stages of the war.
By the end of the war large portions of the peasant masses of occupied China were politically mobilized in support of the Communists; however, the Communists had a severe shortage of war material, including small arms.
This operation destroyed the fighting capability of the Kwantung Army and left the USSR in occupation of all of Manchuria at the end of the war.
Almost 40,000 died in Finnish civil war, more than believed: study(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
New research sponsored by the Finnish government has found that some 39,500 people, almost 10,000 more than previously believed, died during Finland's four-month civilwar in 1918, a historian said Friday.
"The civilwar caused a national trauma, and even though it has lessened over the years, the government saw the need in 1998 to launch a five-year research program into the war deaths," Heikki Ylikangas, a prominent historian in charge of the study, told AFP.
Not least was the research made possible by the "change of atmosphere in Finland" following the collapse of the neighboring Soviet Union in 1991, he added.
Democrats Platform Before Civil War(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
...Apparently, he was against continuing the war before he was for it.
...surpassed only by the period of the CivilWar, which had a shattering impact on.....but he needs more of a message or platform before his appeal nationwide can be predicted.....election.
...reconstruction period, the South after the CivilWar. Not as far back as Bill Whittle.....more than ONE plank in a Party s Platform before committing myself, even if that one.....war,...
