Estonian Workers' Party Explained

Estonian Workers' Party
Native Name:Eesti Tööliste Partei
Foundation:1926
Dissolved:1930
Successor:Workers' United Front
Ideology:Communism
Marxism-Leninism
Position:Far-left
Colours: Red
Country:Estonia

The Estonian Workers' Party (Estonian: Eesti Tööliste Partei) was a political party in Estonia.

History

The party was a front for the Communist Party, which had used umbrella organisations to participate in politics since being banned in 1918.[1] In the 1926 elections the party won six seats,[2] a decrease on the ten seats the Communists won in the 1923 elections running under the guise of the Workers' United Front.[2]

The 1929 elections saw the party retain its six seats.[2] For the 1932 elections the Communists ran as the Left-wing Workers.[3]

Notes and References

  1. 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
  2. [Dieter Nohlen]
  3. Nohlen & Stöver, p583