Suomen Kommunistinen Puolue ja destalinisoinnin ongelma vuonna 1956

Författare

• Jukka Paastela

Abstract

The main aim of the article is to describe and analyze the reaction caused by the 20th congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1956 and the Soviet intervention Hungary in the same year among the Finnish communists. The main conclusion is that in spite of the efforts by one dissident among the party leaders, Mauri Ryömä, the Editor of the organ of the Finnish Communist Party, there was no real destalinization in the party. For instance, there was no reaction of communist intellectuals or the so-called fellow-travellers to the events in Hungary similar to that in France. The result in Finland was that the Communist Party closed its ranks in 1956. However, the lack of destalinization in 1956 was one cause of the sudden emergence of the reform movement in the mid- 1960s and the subsequent split of the party into two factions. — This article has been published in a slightly altered form in French in Communisme 29—30, 1991.