Jaan Anvelt
Writing
April 18, 1884
Died at age 53
November 12, 1937
Date of Death
Oorgu, Kreis Fellin, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire [now Viljandi County, Estonia]
Biography
Jaan Anvelt (April 18, 1884 – December 11, 1937), was an Estonian Bolshevik revolutionary and writer. He served the Russian SFSR, was a leader of the Communist Party of Estonia, the first premier of the Soviet Executive Committee of Estonia, and the chairman of the Council of the Commune of the Working People of Estonia (Estonian: Eesti Töörahva Kommuun). Imprisoned during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge in 1937, he died from the injuries sustained during a beating by Aleksandr Langfang while in NKVD custody.