Adolf Taimi

Finland (previously) Adolf Pietarinpoika Taimi (21 September 1881 – 1 November 1955) was a Finnish-Soviet Bolshevik and a member of the People's Delegation during the Finnish Civil War.

After the civil war Taimi fled to Soviet Russia where he was one of the founding members of the Communist Party of Finland.

In Finland, Taimi's mission was to make contact with Bolshevik soldiers and Finnish Social Democrats.

When the delegate for Internal Affairs, Supreme Commander of the Red Guard Eero Haapalainen, was deposed because of heavy drinking, his replacements were Taimi, Eino Rahja and Evert Eloranta.

After the end of the civil war, Taimi fled to Soviet Russia where he was one of the founding members of the Communist Party of Finland in 1918.

In 1923 he allied with Otto Wille Kuusinen and Kullervo Manner against Eino Rahjaa who was accused of being unsuitable for the party leadership.