Happy Friday, I'm Annie. I'm the policy researcher here at Civic Ventures and a producer of the show.

On Tuesday's episode about reimagining capitalism, you probably heard Onu and Trevor mention the Finnish Civil War, and the

role that it might have played in the type of capitalism that Finland has today.

Well I thought that was a pretty good opportunity to dive into some pitchforks history, so I called

up an expert.

Hi, my name is Tuamas Teppppra and I'm a historian.

I work as a lecturer in history at the University of Health and

get the moment and I have been researching the civil war and the commemoration of the war.

Can you introduce a little bit of what the Finnish government structure was like

leading up to the civil war?

Well, first of all, Finland was part of the Russian Empire, so it was a Grand Duchy in the

Russian Empire until October Revolution.

Finit Society was an anomaly in the Russian Empire because Russia was an autocratic society.

But Finland had an autonomy. It had its own parliament since

1906 and there was a universal suffrage that included women, so it was very democratic.

Now at the same time, someone was very divided, socially divided society.

The class divisions were pretty high.

Sunnis industries were booming during the World War because Finland was left out of the war so that the Finnish men were not conscripted to the Russian army.

So Finn's economy was booming until 1917.

And now it created enormous wealth for some sections of the society, but it also meant that many

of the class divisions were highlighted.

Now of course Finland was also at the same time a

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