What era did Pehr Evind Svinhufvud play a major role in?
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Finnish Independence
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Pehr Evind Svinhufvud was a Finnish statesman who played a major role in the Finnish Independence Movement. He was the first president of Finland from 1917 to 1919 and again from 1931 to 1937. Svinhufvud was a conservative and a strong believer in Finnish independence. He opposed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which ceded Finland to Soviet Russia, and he led the Finnish White Guard in the Finnish Civil War.
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