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- ↑ Paastela, Jukka (2003). Finnish Communism under Soviet Totalitarianism: Oppositions within the Finnish Communist Party in Soviet Russia 1918-1935. Helsinki: Kikimora Publications. ISBN 952-10075-5-9.
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