The Finnish Civil War was a civil war in 1918 fought for the leadership and control of recently independent Finland between White Finland and the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic. The clashes took
Tampere's civilian buildings destroyed during the Battle of Tampere
A demonstration at Helsinki Senate Square.
Russian soldiers in Helsinki. Prior to 1917, they sustained Finland's stability, after the February Revolution, the Russian troops became a source of social unrest.
Soldiers of the paramilitary White Guard in Leinola, a suburb of Tampere
The Red Guards were the paramilitary units of the labour movement in Finland during the early 1900s. The Red Guards formed the army of Red Finland and were one of the main belligerents of the Finnish
Red Guards and Russians fighting on the red side in Ruovesi, Pirkanmaa, Finland in 1918
Arrested Reds are taken in custody after the 1906 Sveaborg rebellion.
Worker's Militia in the Turku suburb of Maaria during the general strike of May 1917.
A demonstration in Turku in March 1917.