Edvard Gylling
Edvard Gylling | |
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Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic | |
In office October 1923 – November 1935 | |
Preceded by | Himself (as chairman of the executive committee of the Karelian Labor Commune) |
Succeeded by | Pavel Ivanovich Bushuev |
Personal details | |
Born | Kuopio, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire | 30 November 1881
Died | 14 June 1938 Kommunarka shooting ground, Moscow, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union | (aged 56)
Alma mater | University of Helsinki |
Occupation | politician, statistician |
Awards | Order of the Red Banner of Labour |
Edvard Otto Vilhelm Gylling (30 November 1881 – 14 June 1938)[1] was a prominent Social Democratic and later Communist politician in Finland, later leader of the Karelian Labor Commune and Karelian ASSR.
Biography
Gylling was born in
After the Reds lost the war, Gylling fled to
He was accused of nationalism, removed in 1935 and arrested in 1937 as a part of the Finnish Operation of the NKVD. There are some contradictions concerning Gylling's death. According to earlier Soviet sources, Gylling died in August 1944, but according to other sources he was actually executed earlier, 1940 or 1938. According to the most recent information, the most likely date of his execution was 14 June 1938. Gylling was posthumously rehabilitated by the Soviet authorities on 16 July 1955.
References
Further reading
- Cotter, Arthur The Finns (New York: The National Council, Department of Missions and Church Extension, 1923) [1]
- Ylarakkola, Arvo Edvard Gylling: Ita-Karjalan rakentaja (Finn-kirja (1976)) Finnish
- Hodgson, John H Edvard Gylling ja Otto W. Kuusinen asiakirjojen valossa 1918–1920 (Tammi. 1974) Finnish