Karelian Labor Commune
The Karelian Labor Commune was an autonomous region 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 Heimosodat. Edvard Gylling and Yrjö Sirola, former members of the government of the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic, met with Vladimir Lenin in the Kremlin to propose autonomy for Karelia within the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. The Commune was founded on 8 June 1920 and was disestablished on 25 July 1923 and succeeded by the Karelian ASSR, following the end of the Heimosodat.
Karelian Labor Commune Карельская трудовая коммуна Karjalan työkansan kommuuni | |||||||||
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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 | ||||||||