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Communist Party of Estonia Eestimaa Kommunistlik Partei | |
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| Leader | Karl Säre (1940–1943) Nikolai Karotamm (1943–1950) Johannes Käbin (1950–1978) Karl Vaino (1978–1988) Vaino Väljas (1988–1990) |
| Founded | 5 November 1920 |
| Dissolved | 26 March 1990 |
| Succeeded by | Estonian Democratic Labour Party |
| Youth wing | ELKNÜ |
| Ideology | Communism Marxism–Leninism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| National affiliation | Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1940–1990) |
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The Communist Party of Estonia (Estonian: Eestimaa Kommunistlik Partei, abbreviated EKP; in Russian: Коммунистическая партия Эстонии) was a regional branch of the Soviet communist party which in 1920–1940 operated illegally in Estonia and, after the 1940 occupation and annexation of the country by the Soviet Union, was formally re-merged into the USSR's All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) and operated as part of the CPSU until 1990.