Leninist Young Communist League of Estonia ELKNÜ ЛКСМЭ | |
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Founded | 1940 |
Preceded by | Young Communist League of Estonia |
Dissolved | 1991 |
Headquarters | Tallinn, Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic |
Membership | 162,202 (1980) |
Ideology | |
Mother party | Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
State party | Communist Party of Estonia |
National affiliation | Komsomol (until 1989) |
International affiliation | World Federation of Democratic Youth |
Newspaper | Noorte Hääl |
The Leninist Young Communist League of Estonia (Estonian: Eestimaa Leninlik Kommunistlik Noorsooühing, ELKNÜ) was a political youth organization that served as the Estonian branch of Komsomol and as the official youth organ of the Estonian Communist Party (EKP). It existed from 1940 until the dissolution of the EKP in 1991.