Sergei Andrejev (16 October 1897,

Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju '' ...

– 12 February 1930, Kirghiz ASSR) was an Estonian Communist who was a member of the

Riigikogu The Riigikogu (; from Estonian ''riigi-'', of the state, and ''kogu'', assembly) is the unicameral parliament of Estonia. In addition to approving legislation, the Parliament appoints high officials, including the Prime Minister and Chief Just ...

for the Estonian Independent Socialist Workers' Party for a brief period in 1922. Andrejev was a member of the

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from 1917 onward and helped organise the Red Guards in Estonia. In the autumn of 1920, he was a clerk at the Tallinn Central Council for Unity, and in December of that year, participated in the creation of the Young Proletarians' Association.Kommunistlik töölisterühm I Riigikogus (1920-1923)
Riigikogu Toimetised In the elections of 1921, he was elected to the Tallinn City Council. He became a member of the Independent Socialist Workers' Party. Andrejev was arrested in the spring of 1921. Despite this, he replaced Johannes Soans in the Riigikogu on 15 March 1922. In May 1922, he was sentenced to 115 years of forced labor by the War Circle Court, after which he went underground and began work at the Estonian Section of the

Comintern The Communist International (Comintern), also known as the Third International, was a Soviet-controlled international organization founded in 1919 that advocated world communism. The Comintern resolved at its Second Congress to "struggle by ...

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. From 6 December 1922, he was replaced by Alfred Maurer in the Riigikogu.I Riigikogu, 20.12.1920 – 30.05.1923
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Communist Party of Estonia The Communist Party of Estonia ( et, Eestimaa Kommunistlik Partei, abbreviated EKP) was a subdivision of the Soviet communist party which in 1920-1940 operated illegally in Estonia and, after the 1940 occupation and annexation of Estonia by the ...

Central Committee from 1922 to 1923 and again from 1928 to 1929. He died fighting in the

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian language, Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist R ...

near the

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river in 1930, fighting against rebelling peasants.

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1897 births 1930 deaths Politicians from Tallinn People from Kreis Harrien Estonian people of Russian descent Central Committee of Tallinn Trade Unions politicians Estonian Independent Socialist Workers' Party politicians Members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Estonia Members of the Riigikogu, 1920–1923 Soviet Army officers {{Estonia-politician-stub