Republik Sokialour Labourerion Finland : diforc'h etre ar stummoù

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The socialist republic's programme and draft constitution, written by Kuusinen, was heavily influenced by [[social democratic]] ideals; by the generally [[liberal]] ideas of the [[United States Declaration of Independence]], and by the [[Switzerland|Swiss]] cantonal system. The main goal was social reform, and the declared means to achieve this was [[parliamentarism|parliamentary democracy]] based on the principle of [[sovereignty]] of the people and of [[national self-determination]]. Bolshevist thoughts such as [[dictatorship of the proletariat|proletarian dictatorship]] and widespread [[nationalisation]] were not parts of their program. The rebellion in Finland thus differed from the October Revolution and from the various uprisings on the European continent that followed [[World War I|the world war]] such as [[Béla Kun]]'s [[Hungarian Soviet Republic]], the [[Spartacists]] in [[Berlin]], or the [[Munich Soviet Republic]]. The embryonic [[republic]] was heavily dependent on Soviet Russia for support and, had it survived, it may have taken a more radical trajectory under the influence of its [[Bolshevik]] neighbour and under pressure by Bolshevik sympathisers within the Social Democratic Party (including Kuusinen himself), the trade unions and the Red Guards. A few months following the defeat of the republic in the civil war in which much of the leadership of the Social Democratic Party was killed, the party split with a faction of refugees led by Kuusinen forming the [[Communist Party of Finland]] in exile in [[Moscow]].