Background
RAKH’YA, Ivan was born on July 19, 1887 in Kronstadt. Son of a worker
RAKH’YA, Ivan was born on July 19, 1887 in Kronstadt. Son of a worker
Metalworker by trade. Member, underground Kronstadt Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks) Committee. 1905 helped lead Kronstadt uprising.
1905-1913 took part in Finnish workers’ movement in Kayan, Isalmi and Kuopio. 1913-1917 underground Party work in Petrograd. 1917 took part in February Revol.
Member, Petrograd Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks) Committee. After 1917 October Revol Assistant High Commissar for Finnish Affairs. Helped organize Finnish Red Guards.
Together with his brother, Eyno Rakh’ya, active in Finnish Revol. 1918 co-founder and Central Committee member, Finnish Communist Party. 1919 Finnish Communist Party representative at 1st Communist International Congress and deleg at 2nd Communist International Congress.
Communist Party member from 1902.