Otto Wille Kuusinen
| Otto Wille Kuusinen | |
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| Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic | |
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In office 11 July 1940 – 16 July 1956 |
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| Succeeded by | Pavel Prokkonen |
| Member of the 19th Presidium | |
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In office 16 October 1952 – 5 March 1953 |
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| Member of the 20th–21st, 22nd Secretariat | |
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In office 29 June 1957 – 17 May 1964 |
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| Born | 4 October 1881 Laukaa, Finland |
| Died | 17 May 1964 (aged 82) Moscow, Soviet Union |
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Social Democratic Party of Finland Communist Party of Finland Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| Children | Hertta Kuusinen (and 7 others) |
Otto Wilhelm (Wille) Kuusinen (
pronunciation , Russian: О́тто Вильге́льмович Ку́усинен, Otto Vilgelmovich Kuusinen) (4 October 1881 – 17 May 1964) was a Finnish and, later, Soviet politician, literary historian, and poet who, after the defeat of the Reds in the Finnish Civil War, fled to the Soviet Union, where he worked until his death.
Kuusinen was born to the family of village tailor Wilhelm Juhonpoika Kuusinen in Laukaa, Finland. Otto's mother died when he was two years old, and the family then moved to Jyväskylä. Kuusinen graduated from the Jyväskylä lyceum in May 1900 and entered Helsinki University the same year. His main subjects were philosophy, aesthetics, and art history. Kuusinen was an active member of the students' union, and during this period he was interested in Fennoman conservatism and Alkioism. Kuusinen graduated as a Candidate of Philosophy in 1902.
After toppling the more moderate party chairman J. K. Kari in 1906, Kuusinen came to dominate Finland's Social Democratic Party. He was a member of Finland's Parliament 1908–1913 and the party's chairman 1911–1917. He was a leader of the January 1918 revolution in Finland that created the short-lived Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic, of which he was appointed People's Commissar of Education. After the republic was defeated in the Finnish Civil War in 1918, Kuusinen fled to Moscow and helped form the Finnish Communist Party.
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