Maatamees

Maatamees
18 November (1 December) 1917 issue of Maatamees
TypeWeekly (July 1917), Thrice Weekly (August 1917 – February 1918)
Editor-in-chiefHans Pöögelmann
FoundedJuly 14, 1917 (1917-07-14)
Political alignmentBolshevik
LanguageEstonian language
Ceased publicationFebruary 22, 1918 (1918-02-22)
CityReval
CountryRussia
Circulation4,000
Sister newspapersTööline, Zvezda, Laukstrādnieku Cīņa
WebsiteDigital archive

Maatamees ('Landless Peasant') was an Estonian-language newspaper published from Reval (Tallinn), Autonomous Governorate of Estonia, Russia between 14 July [O.S. 1 July] 1917 and 22 February 1918.[1][2] The newspaper was an organ of the Rural Sections of the North Baltic Committee of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks).[1][3][2] Maatamees had a circulation of about 4,000 copies.[3][4] All in all, 84 issues of Maatamees were published.[1]

  1. ^ a b c Eesti nõukogude entsüklopeedia, Volume 5. Valgus, 1973. p. 11
  2. ^ a b Paul Vihalem. Eesti kodanlus imperialistide teenistuses, 1917–1920. Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus, 1960. p. 729
  3. ^ a b Великая Октябрьская Социалистическая Революция: 7 мая-25 июля 1917 года. Изд-во Академии наук СССР, 1957. p. 450
  4. ^ Исторический архив, Issue 5. Изд-во Академии наук СССР, 1957. pp. 43, 45