Jukka Rahja

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Bolshevik who was killed by the Petrograd Opposition
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Jukka was the brother of Eino Rahja and Jaakko Rahja.

He joined the

Third International.[1]

On 31 August 1920, during the Kuusinen Club Incident, Rahja was murdered by the Petrograd Opposition, a faction within the SKP. This so-called "revolver opposition" consisted mainly of students of the Petrograd Red Officer School.

The word "Rahjaism" was used to describe the politics of the brothers,[

drunkenness
in the SKP.

References

  1. ^ Biographical Dictionary of the Comintern By Branko M. Lazić, Milorad M. Drachkovitch, Hoover Institution Press, 1987