Nevertheless, the number of Communist Party members proper was, in early 1948, only about 35,000, or about one-tenth of the voting strength of the Communist-affiliated Democratic League. In a ...

Finland’s Reds and the Agrarian Party’s “Greens” work together in Finland’s left-of-center Government. Each of the three major parties —the Communist-dominated Democratic People’s ...

Having secured just 7.1 percent of the vote in last year’s general election, the successor organisation to the once-influential Stalinist Communist Party of Finland took 17.3 percent of the vote.

Riding a back-country protest against unemployment and spiraling prices, the Communists emerged from last summer’s elections as Finland’s biggest party, holding 50 out of 200 parliamentary ...

The House of Culture was completed in 1958 close to the centre of Helsinki. It was designed as a multi-purpose building for the Communist Party of Finland. Apart from the concert hall, the building ...