Jukka Rahja
Bolshevik who was killed by the Petrograd Opposition
.
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
- ^ Biographical Dictionary of the Comintern By Branko M. Lazić, Milorad M. Drachkovitch, Hoover Institution Press, 1987