Johannes Käbin

John Käbin (* September 24, 1905 in the municipality Rannu, then circle Virumaa, † October 26, 1999 in Tallinn ) was an Estonian politician and a Communist.

John Käbin was ethnic and native language Este. He said, however, poorly Estonian, because he grew up in Russia. 1910 had moved his family to St. Petersburg and had assimilated there. 1923 Käbin was Komsomol and joined in 1927 the Communist Party. He made a career in the party in Leningrad and Omsk and worked as a teacher in Moscow. After the Second World War Käbin became deputy head of Propaganda of the Central Committee of the Estonian Communist Party and director of the Historical Institute of the party.

In 1950 he replaced Nikolai Karotamm as leading Communists in Estonia. Initially started as a strict Stalinist, succeeded Käbin in his long time as party leader with amazing flexibility, towards Moscow to assert its own position.

He was chairman of the Estonian Communist Party ( Eestimaa Kommunistlik party ) from 1950 to 1978, at the same time from 1952 to 1978 member of the Central Committee of the CPSU. In 1978, he was against the Moscow faithful Karl Vaino replaced as party chairman. From 1978 to 1983 was Käbin Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR, and thus on record at the highest point in the Union Republic.

John Käbin was a relatively moderate communist, who was prescribed however the consolidation of Soviet rule in Estonia.

Publications

• Estonia yesterday and today. Progress Publishers, Moscow 1971
• The great October and Estonia. Perioodika, Tallinn 1976
• Estonia, one of the united family. Progress Publishers, Moscow 1985

• Politicians (Estonia)
• CPSU member
• Hero of Socialist Labor
• Person (Estonian SSR)
• Estonian
• Born 1905
• Died in 1999
• Man