page_title: Finnish People's Delegation
hierarchical_section_title: Finnish People's Delegation
caption_attribution_description: English: A 1918 poster announcing the revolution in Finland, part of the Finnish Civil War. The lower-left section contains a law whose text is here: https://www.webcitation.org/6PgSyFHqe
context_page_description: The Finnish People's Delegation was a governmental body, created by a group of members in the Social Democratic Party of Finland, to serve as the Government of the Red Guards during the Finnish Civil War. The chair of the Delegation was the former Speaker of the Parliament Kullervo Manner.
  The Delegation seized power at the start of the civil war by supplanting Pehr Evind Svinhufvud's first senate and the Parliament, after which it passed laws and enactments aspiring to a controlled social reformation as per the policy of the labor movement. A parliamentary Workers' General Council also operated alongside the Delegation, although its role in the Reds' administration remained rather minor. The most ambitious of the Delegation's legislative undertakings was a proposition for a new constitution, which aimed at keeping a democratic foundation. The act could not be implemented amidst the war and the progress advanced in the complete opposite direction.
  Soviet Russia was the only nation to recognize the Delegation as Finland's lawful government.
context_section_description: The Finnish People's Delegation (Finnish: Suomen kansanvaltuuskunta Swedish: Finska folkdelegationen) was a governmental body, created by a group of members in the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP), to serve as the Government of the Red Guards during the Finnish Civil War. The chair of the Delegation was the former Speaker of the Parliament Kullervo Manner.
  The Delegation seized power at the start of the civil war by supplanting Pehr Evind Svinhufvud's first senate and the Parliament, after which it passed laws and enactments aspiring to a controlled social reformation as per the policy of the labor movement. A parliamentary Workers' General Council (fi:Työväen pääneuvosto) also operated alongside the Delegation, although its role in the Reds' administration remained rather minor. The most ambitious of the Delegation's legislative undertakings was a proposition for a new constitution, which aimed at keeping a democratic foundation. The act could not be implemented amidst the war and the progress advanced in the complete opposite direction.
  Soviet Russia was the only nation to recognize the Delegation as Finland's lawful government. At the final stages of the war at the beginning of April 1918, the Delegation moved from Helsinki to Vyborg from where its members eventually fled to Petrograd.
caption: A 1918 poster announcing the revolution in Finland, part of the Finnish Civil War. The lower-right section contains a law adopted by the People’s Delegation.
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