(1885-06-20)20 June 1885 Kronstadt, Russian Empire
Died
26 April 1936(1936-04-26) (aged 50) Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Allegiance
Red Finland Soviet Union
Years of service
1917–1931
Rank
Commander
Battles/wars
Finnish Civil War (Battle of Tampere)
Awards
Order of the Red Banner
Eino Abramovich Rahja (20 June 1885 – 26 April 1936) was a Finnish-Russian revolutionary who joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1903, becoming aligned with the party's Bolshevik faction. Rahja organized Lenin's temporary escape to Finland in the summer of 1917. During the Finnish Civil War, Rahja was one of the most capable military leaders of the Reds. After the Reds lost the war, he fled to the Russian SFSR where he lived for the rest of his life and became, for example, a commander of the army corps (komkor) in the Red Army.[1]
Eino Rahja was expelled from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Finland in 1927. In the early 1920s he was politically close to Grigory Zinoviev.[1]
Eino was a brother of Jukka Rahja and Jaakko Rahja. His brother, Jaakko, was wounded during the Kuusinen Club Incident on 31 August 1920.
Rahja was expelled from the army in 1935 for his alcoholism and later sentenced to death in 1936,[citation needed] however, he died in April 1936 from tuberculosis and alcohol abuse, before he could be executed.[2]
^ abPaastela, Jukka (2003). Finnish communism under Soviet totalitarianism: oppositions within the Finnish Communist Party in Soviet Russia 1918-1935. Kikimora. Helsinki: Kikimora Publications. ISBN 978-952-10-0755-2. OCLC 53166825.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
^Хански, Яри. "Ejno Raxʹja" Эйно Рахья [Eino Rahja]. Sto zamečatelʹnyh finnov Сто замечательных финнов [One hundred wonderful Finns] (PDF) (in Russian). pp. 484–489. Archived (PDF) from the original on 6 June 2007.
Eino Abramovich Rahja (20 June 1885 – 26 April 1936) was a Finnish-Russian revolutionary who joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1903...
Rahja is a Finnish surname. Notable people with the surname include: EinoRahja (1885–1936), Finnish-Russian politician Jukka Rahja (1887–1920), Russian-Finnish...
player Eino Purje (1900–1984), middle-distance runner EinoRahja (1885–1936), Finnish-Russian politician Eino Railio (1886–1970), Finnish gymnast Eino S....
commander-in-chief of the Red Guards as a member of the triumvirate with EinoRahja and Adolf Taimi. After the war, Eloranta fled to the Soviet Russia, where...
pessimistic comment on 27 January 1918 to Finnish Bolshevik EinoRahja is well known: "No comrade Rahja, this time you will not win your campaign, because you...
killed by the Petrograd Opposition. Jukka was the brother of EinoRahja and Jaakko Rahja. He joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1903...
of Finland (SKP) in Moscow, 1920. From left to right: K. M. Evä, Jukka Rahja, Jalo Kohonen, Kullervo Manner, EinoRahja, Mandi Sirola and Yrjö Sirola....
Mikhail von Schulz (1862–1917), Vice-admiral of the Russian Imperial Navy EinoRahja (1885–1936), Finnish-Russian Communist revolutionary Nikolay Gumilyov...
Guards after a series of defeats. He was replaced by a troika composed of EinoRahja, Adolf Taimi and Evert Eloranta. Haapalainen remained a member of the...
of Finland (SKP) in Moscow, 1920. From left to right: K. M. Evä, Jukka Rahja, Jalo Kohonen, Kullervo Manner, EinoRahja, Mandi Sirola and Yrjö Sirola....
Mannerheim became a target of assassination. One of the would-be assassins was EinoRahja, who was in charge of the Saint Petersburg International School of Red...
of Finland), Kullervo Manner (CPF), O. V. Kuusinen (CPF), Jukka Rahja (CPF), EinoRahja (CPF), Mykola Skrypnyk (Communist Party (Bolshevik) of Ukraine)...
attempt on General Mannerheim, led by Aleksander Weckman by order of EinoRahja, during the White Guard parade in Tampere, Finland. April 4 – 1920 Palestine...
launched a 3,500-man counterattack in Lempäälä, under the command of EinoRahja. The Red Guards of Turku and Yläne attempted a simultaneous breakthrough...
Yrjö Sirola Ali Aaltonen Eero Haapalainen Evert Eloranta Adolf Taimi EinoRahja August Wesley Mikhail Svechnikov Georgy Bulatsel Damdin Sükhbaatar Soliin...
attempt on General Mannerheim, led by Aleksander Weckman by order of EinoRahja, during the White Guard parade in Tampere, Finland. 1922 – Joseph Stalin...
shared three votes: Yrjö Sirola Kullervo Manner Otto Kuusinen Jukka RahjaEinoRahja One delegate held three votes: Endre Rudnyánszky One delegate held...
were released from jail. Eloranta, however, was executed in 1923 after EinoRahja lobbied the reconsideration of the commutations. Eloranta's wife Elvira...
Nikolay Komarov, Alexey Kuznetsov, Otto Wille Kuusinen, Boris Pozern, EinoRahja, Kustaa Rovio, Georgy Safarov, Pyotr Smorodin, Nikolai Shvernik, Leonid...
Haapalainen was deposed because of heavy drinking his replacement was Taimi, EinoRahja and Evert Eloranta. After the end of the civil war, Taimi fled to Soviet...
returned from Finland disguised as a railway worker and protected by EinoRahja and Alexander Shotman on 9 August 1917. Both times Lenin crossed the Russian–Finnish...
attempt on General Mannerheim, led by Aleksander Weckman by order of EinoRahja, during the White Guard parade in Tampere, Finland. Died: Patrick D. Tyrrell...
members of the Petrograd Finnish Red Guard commanded by brothers Jukka and EinoRahja. The train stopped by the station and was surprised by the Whites. After...
Museum. Nicholas Marr 1865 1934 Historian and linguist, Japhetic theory. EinoRahja 1885 1936 Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and Bolshevik activist...
Saint Petersburg. They were appointed by the Finnish revolutionaries EinoRahja and Evert Eloranta to sneak into Finland as spies. After crossing the...
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