Estonian Workers' Party
The Estonian Workers' Party (Estonian: Eesti Tööliste Partei) was a political party in Estonia.
Estonian Workers' Party Eesti Tööliste Partei | |
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| Founded | 1926 |
| Dissolved | 1930 |
| Succeeded by | Workers' United Front |
| Ideology | Communism Marxism-Leninism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| Colours | Red |
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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]
References
- Communist subversion against the state in the Republic of Estonia in the nineteen-twenties and thirties Estonica
- Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p586 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
- Nohlen & Stöver, p583
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