Talk:1917 Finnish parliamentary election

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Special circumstances

I wrote a short lead explaining the special circumstances of the election. There should be links to a more complete discussion, but I did not find any suitable article. "Valtalaki"/"maktlagen" ("the law of power"), the law declaring the parliament taking over powers from the tsar, should have an article of its own.

The matters are complicated and delicate, since most of the right wing establishment was against the Valtalaki (as not wanting to disturb relations with Russia, as long as the socialists seemed not to win), but did later declare the Civil War in Finland a war of independence. The politics towards Russia in this time was very much about believes on who would win in the internal Russian struggle.

(At the time of the civil war Lenin had already accepted the independence, but there was a fear Finland would become a satellite state.)

--LPfi (talk) 10:36, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]