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Exhibitions Earlier Exhibitions Revolution and Civil War in Finland 1918
Revolution and Civil War in Finland 1918

Temporary exhibition September 11th - December 30th 2010

Fotografi af to rødgardister, som bliver henrettet. Henrettelser som denne var almindelige på begge sider i den finske borgerkrig

Bloody civil war, revolution, and executions – things like that couldn’t happen in the Nordic countries, could they? Yes they could, and they did less than a hundred years ago in Finland – only we’ve all forgotten.

The Workers’ Museum does something about this state of affairs in a new special exhibition: Revolution and civil war in Finland 1918.

Through photos, objects and Danish newspaper reports from 1918 the special exhibition tells the story of a civil war which cast long shadows over Danish society.

See all pictures from the exhibition in a picturegallery (Danish only).
Movies shown as part of the exhibition (Danish only).

The photos provide the observer with unique insights into the realities of war – burnt down towns, a small boy who has been killed and whose body has been abandoned on the road, mass executions and soldiers on both sides proudly posing their weapons.

A razor used to commit suicide tells its own tale of a prisoner’s desperation – better to take your own life that to be executed.
Kvindelige rødgardister holder øvelse.Nedbrændte civile bygninger i Tampere - kun skorstenene står tilbage.Kvindelige tilhængere.
Newspaper articles from the Danish press in 1918 steer the observer into the era and give us an impression of the importance the war was accorded in contemporary Denmark. For Finland had become an outpost of the Nordic Region – an outpost against the menace from the East and the Bolshevik spectre that was now close at hand and threatened the existing social order.

In this way, the exhibition also shows us the deeply ideological conflicts characterizing a time when the Nordic left wing had to take sides in a crucial issue: reform or revolution?

The Civil War
The Finnish civil war broke out less than two months after Finland had won its independence in December 1917. On one side was the poverty stricken urban and agricultural proletariat, on the other, a bourgeoisie staking its exclusive claim to political and financial power.
To rødgardister.En mindreårig rødgardistEn rødgardist fremviser stolt sine våben

Social indignation and widespread hunger were some of the factors behind the proclamation of the Finnish Workers’ Republic by the red revolutionaries. The ‘white’ bourgeois groups mobilized, and the conflict escalated into a bloody civil war in which around 35,000 people lost their lives.

Today the civil war is all but forgotten despite the hundreds of newspaper articles in the Danish papers of the day, despite Danes having participated in Finland’s ‘fight for freedom’  and despite large-scale appeals for money for war victims.

The special exhibition can be seen at the Workers’ Museum from 10 September to 31 December. After having been shown in Copenhagen, the exhibition moves to Vermork, Norway and Werstas, Finland.

The exhibition is supported by:

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