The article presents the memories of I.A. Kireev, the Russian officer of the
Baltic fleet, about the workers’ revolution in Finland in 1918. The document was
discovered in the archive of Demyan Bedny in the IMLI. The poet collected information
from the fronts of the civil war. Among them was the manuscript of 600 pages, in which
Kireev not only described in detail the course of the revolution and the civil war in Finland
in the first half of 1918, but also presents his views on the causes of the defeat of the
workers’ movement in Finland.
Keywords
Finland, Finnish workers’ revolution of 1918, the civil war, Ivan Alekseevich Kireev, Demyan Bedny, the Baltic fleet, the labor movement in Finland, the Finns, the Red guard, Helsinki.
