Edvard Gylling
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Edvard Otto Vilhelm Gylling was a Finland-Swedish politician, statistician and economist. A member of the Diet of FInland for the Social Democratic Party of Finland from 1908 to 1917 and vice chairman of the party, he served as Commissar of Finance for the revolutionary Red government during the Finnish Civil War.
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Edvard Otto Vilhelm Gylling was a Finland-Swedish politician, statistician and economist. A member of the Diet of FInland for the Social Democratic Party of Finland from 1908 to 1917 and vice chairman of the party, he served as Commissar of Finance for the revolutionary Red government during the Finnish Civil War. After the Red defeat he went into exile, eventually becoming the leader of Soviet Karelia as Chairman of the Council of its People's Commissars from 1923 to 1935, before falling victim to Stalin's purges.
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