Karelian Labor Commune

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Map of the Karelian Labor Commune

The Karelian Labor Commune (Karel´skaia Trudovaia Kommuna, KTK) was established in 1920 as an following the successes of the Red Army's incursion into the Republic of Uhtua on 18 May 1920. Edvard Gylling and Yrjö Sirola, former members of the government of the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic, met with Lenin in the Kremlin to propose autonomy for Karelia within the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (. The KTK was founded on 8 June 1920.[1]

Juridical status[]

The 1918 constitution of the RSFSR created provision for to be established within the territory of the RSFSR.

Concentration camps[]

The KTK was faced with a labour shortage which prevented them from effectively developing the economy through timber exports and industrialisation following the turmoil of the previous years. In a dispute with the Olonets Governorate, based in Petrozavodsk, Gylling attempted to gain control of the Neglinka saw mill, along with a nearby concentration camp run by the Cheka.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ Kut’kov, N. "KARELIAN LABOR COMMUNE WAS ESTABLISHED". Presidential Library. Presidential Library. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  2. ^ Baron, Nick (1 April 2001). "Conflict and complicity : The expansion of the Karelian Gulag, 1923-1933". Cahiers du monde russe. Russie - Empire russe - Union soviétique et États indépendants (in French). 42 (42/2-4): 615–648. doi:10.4000/monderusse.8471. ISSN 1252-6576.
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