Inkeri Lehtinen

Inkeri Lehtinen (1908–1997) was a Finnish communist politician. She served as the education minister of the Terijoki government during the Finnish Democratic Republic. She was among the significant Finnish women politicians during the post-World War II period.[1]

Inkeri Lehtinen
Minister of Education
In office
December 1939 – March 1940
Prime MinisterOtto Wille Kuusinen
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Personal details
Born7 March 1908
Helsinki
Died1 March 1997(1997-03-01) (aged 88)
Helsinki
Political partyCommunist Party of Finland

Biography

Lehtinen was born in Helsinki on 7 March 1908.[2] Her parents were the supporters of the Marxist–Leninist ideology.[3] Between 1925 and 1945 she held different posts in the Soviet Union and Finland.[3] She was a member of the Communist Party of Finland being one of its leaders in the period 1939–1969.[3] In the late 1930s she was among the contributors of a magazine entitled Soihtu published by a group of young left-wing figures who were removed from the Party in 1937.[4] This group was headed by Mauri Ryömä.[4] In her writings Lehtinen criticized Ryömä due to his closeness to the Finnish government.[4] From December 1939 to March 1940 she was the minister of education in the Terijoki Government during the Winter War.[2][5]

Lehtinen left Finland after the war and settled in the Soviet Union. She returned to Finland in October 1946.[6] She was elected as a member of the political bureau of the Communist Party's central committee in April 1963.[7]

Lehtinen died in Helsinki on 1 March 1997 after a long illness.[2]

References
  1. Pirkko Kotila (January 2006). "Hertta Kuusinen - The "Red Lady of Finland"". Science & Society. 70 (1): 58. doi:10.1521/siso.2006.70.1.46.
  2. "Inkeri Lehtinen". Helsingin Sonamat. 1 March 1997. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  3. Ulla Käyhkö (2005). Inkeri Lehtinen ja stalinismi SKP:ssa: Lehtisen elämä ja erityisesti osallistuminen SKP:n johdon 1960-luvun stalinismikeskusteluun (1960-1968) (MA thesis) (in Finnish). Tampere University. hdl:10024/92934.
  4. Kimmo Rentola (October 1998). "The Finnish Communists and the Winter War". Journal of Contemporary History. 33 (4): 591–592, 595. doi:10.1177/002200949803300408. S2CID 159554578.
  5. Hans Peter Krosby (June 1960). "The Communist Power Bid in Finland in 1948". Political Science Quarterly. 75 (2): 233. doi:10.2307/2146156. JSTOR 2146156.
  6. Erick Richard Erickson (1982). The making of Finland's postwar international positions: 1944-1948 (PhD thesis). Johns Hopkins University. pp. 49, 217–218. ISBN 979-8-204-89785-4. ProQuest 303229254.
  7. Translations on International Communist Developments. U.S. Joint Publications Research Service. 1963. p. 4-PA26.
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