Vaba Maa Explained

Vaba Maa ('Free Country') was a daily newspaper in Estonia, published from Tallinn. It was the organ of the Estonian Labour Party.^[1] Vaba Maa had a circulation of about 50,000 in the early 1920s.^[2]

Ants Piip became the editor of Vaba Maa in 1923.^[3]

Vaba Maa was owned by Aleksander Weiler.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Wende, Frank. Lexikon zur Geschichte der Parteien in Europa. Stuttgart: Kröner, 1981. p. 141
2. Miljan, Toivo. Historical Dictionary of Estonia. European historical dictionaries, 43. Lanham, Md. [u.a.]: Scarecrow Press, 2004. p. 343
3. McHugh, James T., and James S. Pacy. Diplomats Without a Country: Baltic Diplomacy, International Law, and the Cold War. Westport, Conn [u.a.]: Greenwood Press, 2001. p. 179
4. Kasekamp, Andres. The Radical Right in Interwar Estonia. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press in association with School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, 2000. p. 62