Sventorzetsky graduated from the
University of St. Petersburg in 1907 and worked as an official in
General Governor's Office, but had to resign in 1914 at the request by Governor
Franz Seyn. After the
Civil War, Social Democrat Sventorzetski served as a journalist for several Social Democratic journals. In the
parliamentary election in 1922 he was elected to the parliament from the
constituency of the Mikkeli County. Sventorzetsky wrote to the Social Democratic main vocalist newspaper
Social Democrat from 1918-1920 and 1924-1944. In the 1920s, Sventorzetsky belonged to the left of the SDP and to the so-called
Huplian Opposition. He was elected to the party committee at the 1926 party congress. That same year, Sventorzetsky objected to his party's move to the government. Sventorzetsky, representing the moderate opposition in the 1930s, was one of the leading foreign policy experts in the party. From the 1920s Svento supported the cooperation between Social Democrats and
Agrarian League. In 1937, Svento published the book
The Worker and Peasant, in which he considered the government of the Social Democrats and the Agrarian League essential for the maintenance of a democratic society under the pressure of
fascism and
communism. In the following year, Finland's foreign policy appeared, in which Svento warned of the difficult position of Finland in the event of a possible war. Svento did not believe the importance of ideological issues in foreign policy and he favored a neutral balancing between the great powers. In the negotiations between Finland and the
Soviet Union in the autumn of 1939, Svento demanded absolute neutrality from Finland. After the
Winter War he considered the conflict as a major
imperialism of the
Great powers. During the
Continuation War., Svento was involved in the
peace opposition movement. After the Continuation War, Svento moved to the
People's Democratic League with many other Social Democratic party leaders who were divided in the party's policy. As a
Foreign Minister in April 1948, Svento was a member of the Negotiation delegation considering the
Finno-Soviet Treaty. In September 1955, he was a member of the delegation led by President
J. K. Paasikivi, with whom the Soviet Union agreed to return the
Porkkala Base back to Finland. At the end of her public career, Svento was part of the Finnish delegation to the
United Nations in 1955-1958. Reinhold Svento and First Foreign Minister
Carl Enckell often used to talk and exchange correspondence with each other in
Russian. Both had served as civil servant at the
Minister–Secretary of States Office in
St. Petersburg. The role of Svento and Enckell as assistants and advisers to J. K. Paasikivi also underlined the fact that the head of the Political Department's highest official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was held throughout their ministry without the holder. Reinhold Svento received the honor of the Minister in 1971. ==Family==