There was a dispute over Swedish or Finnish language dominance between a peasant-clergy alliance and nobility-burghers, and a struggle for parliamentary democracy between the labour movement and the elite.
Había unha disputa acerca do dominio da lingua finesa ou sueca entre a alianza do clero campesiño e a nobreza burguesa, e unha loita pola democracia parlamentaria entre o movemento obreiro e as elites dominantes.