Estonian Workers' Party
Eesti Tööliste Partei
Founded1926
Dissolved1930
Succeeded byWorkers' United Front
IdeologyCommunism
Marxism-Leninism
Political positionFar-left
Colours  Red

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]

References

  1. Communist subversion against the state in the Republic of Estonia in the nineteen-twenties and thirties Estonica
  2. 1 2 3 Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p586 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  3. Nohlen & Stöver, p583


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