Jukka Rahja
Jukka Rahja ( Russian Иван (Юкка) Абрамович Рахья , Iwan Abramowitsch Rachja ; born July 19, 1887 in Kronstadt ; † August 31, 1920 in Petrograd ) was a Finnish communist who was active in both the Finnish and Russian revolutionary movements .
Life
Rahja came from a working class family. His older brother Eino Rahja was also active in the revolutionary movement. Jukka Rahja was a metal worker and joined the RSDLP in 1902 . In 1905 he became a member of the Kronstadt Committee of the RSDLP. In the 1905 revolution he was one of the leaders of the uprising of sailors and soldiers. After the failure of the uprising, Rahja fled to Finland. Here he continued his political activities in the Finnish Social Democratic Youth Association ( Finnish Suomen sosialidemokraattinen nuorisoliitto ). Rahja returned to Russia in 1913 and worked for the party in Saint Petersburg .
After the February Revolution of 1917 he became a member of the St. Petersburg Committee of the RSDLP ( Bolsheviks ). He was a delegate to the VII All-Russian Conference of the RSDLP (B) in April 1917, took part in August 1917 on the VI. RSDLP party congress (B) and in October 1917 the extended session of the Central Committee at which the resolution on the armed uprising was adopted.
After the October Revolution of 1917, Rahja became Deputy Commissioner for Finnish Affairs. He was one of the organizers of the Finnish Red Guards . Rahja took part in the Finnish Revolution in 1918 and was seriously wounded in the fighting over the train station in Kämärä . On August 29, 1918, he was one of the founders of the Communist Party of Finland in Moscow and was elected to the party's central committee. He took part as a delegate for the CP of Finland at the founding congress (1919) and at the II World Congress (1920) of the Comintern .
Rahja was murdered with seven other Finnish communists in the attack on the Kuusinen Club in Petrograd.
Honors
The urban-type settlement of Rachja in Leningrad Oblast has been named after him since October 1923.
literature
- Article Jukka Rahja in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- Wladislaw Hedeler , Alexander J. Watlin (ed.): The world party from Moscow. The founding congress of the Communist International in 1919. Protocol and new documents . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 3-05-004495-0 , pp. 366 . ( limited preview on Google Book Search )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rahja, Jukka |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Рахья, Иван Абрамович; Рахья, Юкка Абрамович |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish-Russian revolutionary and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 19, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kronstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 31, 1920 |
| Place of death | Petrograd |