Otto Rästas
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Otto Rästas ( Russian Отто Юрьевич Рястас , Otto Jurewitsch Rjastas ; * February 21 July / March 5, 1890 greg. In Kehtna ; † January 27, 1938 in Leningrad ) was an Estonian revolutionary , politician and functionary of the Comintern .
Life
Rästas, son of a farmer, worked as a worker in Reval from 1907 . In 1912 he joined the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party (RSDLP). Persecuted by the police, he moved to Narva in 1913 , where he worked in the editorial office of the newspaper Kiir (Eng. Ray). Rästas was exiled to Yekaterinoslav , then to Kharkov and in 1915 to Tsaritsyn . After the February Revolution of 1917 , Rästas became a member of the first executive committee of the Tsaritsyn Soviet. In May 1917 he returned to Reval, where he was involved in the preparation and beginning of the October Revolution . In 1919 he was a member of the government of the Estonian Workers' Commune, where he was responsible for social affairs. After the collapse of the commune, Rästas worked illegally for the party between 1920 and 1924 in the now independent Estonia. From 1920 to 1938 he was a member of the Central Committee of the CP Estonia . Between 1924 and 1926 Rästas was Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the Communist Parties of the Baltic States at the Executive Committee of the Communist International (ECCI). From 1924 he was secretary of the Estonian section of the KPR (B) and from 1928 also secretary of the Estonian section of the Comintern. From 1935 he was editor-in-chief of the Estonian-language newspaper Edasi (Ger. Forward ) in Leningrad .
Rästas wrote several writings on the Estonian labor movement.
He was arrested in January 1938 and a victim of the Stalin purges .
Works
- Klassiwõitluse wäerinnalt: lühike ülewaade ametiühinglisest liikumisest . Külvaja, Leningrad 1931.
- Lühikene ülevaade ametiühingulisest liikumisest ja ülesannetest . Välismaatööliste Kirjastusühisus NSV Liidus, Moscow / Leningrad 1934.
Honors
- A trawler built in 1975 at the Baltija shipyard in Klaipėda was named after Otto Rästas (until 1992) .
literature
- Vambola Lillemäe: Otto Rästas . Eesti Raamat, Tallinn 1976.
Web links
- Article by Otto Rästas in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- Жертвы политического террора в СССР ( Victim of Political Terror in the USSR ) (Russian)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rästas, Otto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ryastas, Otto Jurewitsch |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Estonian Soviet revolutionary and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | at Kehta |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 27, 1938 |
| Place of death | Leningrad |