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The Estonian Radical Socialist Party (Estonian : Eesti Radikaalsotsialistlik Partei, ERSP) was a political party in Estonia.
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The Estonian Radical Socialist Party (Estonian : Eesti Radikaalsotsialistlik Partei, ERSP) was a political party in Estonia.
The party was founded on 6 May 1917 in Tallinn in order to contest the Estonian Provincial Assembly elections that year. [1] Its initial leaders were Jüri Vilms and Eduard Laaman. [2] The party co-operated closely with the Social Travaillist Party and the two became known as the "Labourites". [3]
The Labourites won 11 of the 62 seats in the Assembly elections, [4] becoming the second-largest faction after the Rural League, and went on to finish second in the 1918 Constituent Assembly elections.
In 1919 the two parties merged to form the Estonian Labour Party. [1]
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