Oikeistoradikalismin loppunäytös: Mäntsälän kapinasta Isänmaalliseen Kansanliikkeeseen

Authors

• Lauri Karvonen

Abstract

The Finnish Lapua Movement was one of the most successful European right-wing radical movements of the early 1930s. Later in the 1930s, its party political activity was channeled into the People’s Patriotic Movement (IKL). The IKL never grew into a big party, but it was nevertheless the largest fascist party in the Nordic countries. Along with the Lapua legacy, its ideology incorporated foreign concepts, such as corporatism, and the Leadership principle. For its support, it relied upon conservatism, lower middle-class people in small communities, and Finnish-speaking civil cervants in towns. The movement never acquired a wide following among smallholders. The unresponsive attitude of other parties, the increasing ties of smallholders to the Agrarian League, and the increasing allegiance of the Agrarian League to the parliamentary system isolated the IKL from political decisionmaking and accelerated the weakening of the party.