Reidar Thoralf Larsen (8 October 1923 – 16 February 2012) was a

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politician. He was chairman of the

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from 1965 to 1975, when he resigned from his position, left the party and joined the Socialist Left Party (SV). He left SV in 1999 in protest against the party's support for the

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, and because he felt the party was not radical enough. Larsen was a member of the

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from 1973 to 1977, representing

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1923 births 2012 deaths Politicians from Lillehammer Members of the Storting Communist Party of Norway politicians Socialist Left Party (Norway) politicians Hedmark politicians Norwegian memoirists 20th-century Norwegian politicians {{Norway-politician-1920s-stub