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Jaan Anvelt
Jaan Anvelt was an Estonian Bolshevik leader who chaired the Commune of the Working People of Estonia, proclaimed in Narva in November 1918 with Soviet Russian backing during the Estonian War of Independence. After the Commune collapsed in 1919 he directed the communist underground, including the failed Tallinn uprising of 1924, from Soviet Russia. He was arrested during Stalin's purges and died in custody in 1937.
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