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Activities and organization

EKNÜ was working in a clandestine manner. It published ''Noor Proletaarlane'' (1921) and ''Noor Tööline'' (1922–1923). There are other publications from the EKNÜ that were written by Kalju Tiro. EKNÜ was a section of the

.Youth Communist International
Marxist History website. After the incorporation of Estonia into the

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on 6 August 1940,Siemer, Kaar
"Who is Red on the outside and white inside?"
University of Tartu. This is one article in Chapter 2 of a collection entitled, ''Studies on Oral Histories, Life, and Family Stories,'' edited by Tiiu Jaago in collaboration with Mare Kõiva and Kairika Kärsna . EKNÜ merged into the

All-Union Leninist Young Communist League The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (russian: link=no, Всесоюзный ленинский коммунистический союз молодёжи (ВЛКСМ), ), usually known as Komsomol (; russian: Комсомол, links=n ...

(VLKSM). The Estonian branch of VLKSM had the name '

' (''Eestimaa Leninlik Kommunistlik Noorsooühing'', ELKNÜ).Nelson, Daniel N. "Leninist and Political Inequalities: The Non-Revolutionary Politics of Communist States." Comparative Politics, Vol. 14, No. 3. (Apr., 1982), pp. 307-328
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References

Sources

* Parming, Tönu
The Electoral Achievements of the Communist Party, 1920-1940
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'', Vol. 42, No. 3. (Autumn, 1983), pp. 426–447. {{Authority control Youth wings of communist parties Youth wings of political parties in Estonia Political history of Estonia Komsomol 1920 establishments in Estonia 1940s disestablishments in Estonia Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic Youth organizations established in 1920