Hanna Karhinen
Hanna Karhinen (née Johanna Sofia Andelin) (16 June 1878, Vyborg – 27 September 1938) was a Finnish Social Democratic Party and later Communist Party politician and activist. She served in the Parliament of Finland from 1913 to 1916. During the 1918 Finnish Civil War Karhinen was a member of the Central Workers' Council of Finland and commissioner of interior in the Finnish People's Delegation.
After the defeat in the Finnish Civil War, she settled in Sweden and then was sent as a Comintern representative in the United States at the suggestion of Yrjö Sirola.
Karhinen settled in the Soviet Union in 1926 and was active as a state and party functionary in the Karelian ASSR. She was expelled from the Communist Party in 1936 and in 1938, during the Great Purge, she was arrested and executed on charges of being involved in underground counter-revolutionary activities.[1]
Hanna Karhinen was rehabilitated in 1989.
References[]
- ^ Kostiainen, Auvo (1978). The Forging of Finnish-American Communism 1917-1924 (PDF). Turku: The Migration Institute. p. 55.
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- Hanna Karhinen. Edustajamatrikkeli. Kansanedustajat 1907 –. Eduskunta (Parliament of Finland). (in Finnish)
- KASNTn NKVDn vuosina 1937 - 1938 rankaisemien Suomen Eduskunnan entisten jäsenten luettelo
- 1878 births
- 1938 deaths
- People from Vyborg
- People from Viipuri Province (Grand Duchy of Finland)
- Social Democratic Party of Finland politicians
- Members of the Parliament of Finland (1913–16)
- Members of the Parliament of Finland (1916–17)
- Great Purge victims from Finland
- People executed by the Soviet Union
- Soviet rehabilitations
- Finnish Comintern people