Communist Party of Estonia
Communist Party of Estland (in Estonian: Eestimaa Kommunistlik Partei, in Russian: Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Estonii; EKP) was a political party in Estonia.
October Revolution
On October 23, 1917 (by the Julian calendar still in use in Russia at the time; November 5 by the current Gregorian calendar), Bolshevik leader Jaan Anvelt led his leftist revolutionaries to the rebellion in Tallinn, the then capital of Estland.
Republic of Estonia
EKP was formed November 5, 1920.
The Uprising of December 1, 1924
The Parliament of Estonia forbided the EKP on February 12, 1925.
Occupation of Estonia by Soviet Union
Occupation of Estonia by Nazi Germany
Estonian SSR
The EKP was purged in 1950 of many of its original native leaders; they were replaced by several prominent Russian Estonians who had grown up in Russia. After Stalin's death in 1953, Nikita Khrushchev's liberalization also touched Estonia.
Perestroika
EKP was reformed in 1990 through a split in the original EKP, as the pro-reform majority faction of EKP separated itself from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and became the Estonian Democratic Labour Party. The minority faction of pro-Soviet hardliners hardliners called their party EKP (NLKP), or 'Communist Party of Estland (CPSU)'.
Republic of Estonia
In August 1991, after the failed August Coup, organisations which had supported the coup (incl EKP (NLKP)) were illegalised in Estonia. Reportedly, a very small group of militants carried on their cause, initially their grouping was affiliated with the Union of Communist Parties - Communist Party of the Soviet Union (SKP-KPSS), but when SKP-KPSS split in 2001 they joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union of Oleg Shenin. In 2005, the only known member of the grouping was Juri Mishin; his 'party' actually exists only in CPSU list.[citation needed]
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