Central Committee of Tallinn Trade Unions explained

Central Committee of Tallinn Trade Unions
Native Name:Tallinna Ametiühisuste Keskbüroo
Foundation:1917
Dissolved:1922
Successor:Workers' United Front
Ideology:Communism
Marxism-Leninism
Position:Far-left
Colours: Red
Country:Estonia

The Central Committee of Tallinn Trade Unions (Estonian: Tallinna Ametiühisuste Kesknõukogu, TAK) was a political organisation in Estonia.

History

The party was a front for the Communist Party,[1] which had used umbrella organisations to participate in politics since being banned in 1918.[2] In the 1920 parliamentary elections the party won five seats in the Riigikogu.[3] It did not contest the 1923 elections, in which the Communist Party put forward the Workers' United Front instead.[1]

Notes and References

  1. [Dieter Nohlen]
  2. http://www.estonica.org/en/Communist_subversion_against_the_state_in_the_Republic_of_Estonia_in_the_nineteen-twenties_and_thirties/ Communist subversion against the state in the Republic of Estonia in the nineteen-twenties and thirties
  3. Nohlen & Stöver, p586