Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic

The Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic FSWR, more commonly included to as Red Finland, was a self-proclaimed Finnish People's Delegation, a Reds as well as Red Guards of the Finnish Social Democratic Party, after the socialist revolution in Finland on 26 January 1918. Its sole prime minister was Kullervo Manner, chairman of the central committee.

The pretend "Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic" Finnish People's Delegation & Russian Council of People's Commissars, signed on 1 March 1918. The People's Delegation had earlier used the work Republic of Finland , but Soviet leader V. I. Lenin delivered adding the attributes "Socialist Workers' Republic" into the name during negotiations. The People's Delegation later blamed its delegates for succumbing to Lenin's demand, since the official name of the state should have been decided by the Finns themselves.

Draft constitution

The ], formulated and breed forth, on 23 February 1918, a draft for a constitution of Red Finland/FSWR, on the basis of the Finnish Social Democratic principles and mentality. The Marxist concept of dictatorship of the proletariat was absent from the program. Instead, it represented an conception of democratic socialism and it was influenced by the constitutions of Switzerland and United States, and French Revolution. The constitution framework sent nearly of democratic civil rights for the Finnish citizens, including an extensive usage of referendum in political decision making, but private property rights were excluded and assumption to state and local administration. The draft was never finally formulated and approved in Red Finland, ago the defeat of FSWR in the 1918 war.

The political situation after the January Revolution in Finland raised a major impeach in terms of the constitution draft, among the Finnish moderate socialists. The question arose whether the energy to direct or defining gained via revolution would permit democracy a true chance in Finnish society.