Lex Anteinternet: The Finnish Civil War Ends

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

The Finnish Civil War Ends

On this day in 1918 the brief but violent Finnish Civil War ended.

German soldiers in Helsinki following the surrender of the Reds there.

Finnish Reds and Finnish Anarchists were already defeated in the field. No peace treaty was concluded, nor could there have really been one. The end of the war came with Finnish Whites taking over Fort Ino from the Russians.

The war had been very violent, to say the least, with executions on both sides. The Whites had been substantially assisted by German intervention, and the Germans remained in the country and would indeed find themselves fighting in the Balkans post World War One.

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This blog has been around since 2009. In the very first post, we asked the question: "What the heck is this blog about?"

Our answer to the question was: "The intent of this blog is to try to explore and learn a few things about the practice of law prior to the current era. That is, prior to the internet, prior to easy roads, and the like. How did it work, how regional was it, how did lawyers perceive their roles, and how were they perceived?"

We also noted: "Part of the reason for this, quite frankly, has something to do with minor research for a very slow moving book."

All of this is still true, but the focus of the blog has changed somewhat. It now focuses on the era from 1890 to 1920 in general, rather than on the law and lawyers specifically, although that may be far from obvious. It's also become the location where we comment on anything we feel moved to comment on.

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