
Jaan Anvelt (April 18, 1884-December 11, 1937), was an Estonian writer and Bolshevik revolutionary.
Biography[]
He served the Russian SFRY, was leader of the Estonian Communist Party, first prime minister of the Estonian Soviet Executive Committee and chairman of the Council of the Estonian Workers' Commune (Estonian Eesti Töörahva Kommuun). Imprisoned during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge in 1937, he died of injuries sustained during a beating by Aleksandr Langfang while in NKVD custody.