Communist Party of Estonia (1990)

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Communist Party of Estonia (in Estonian: Eestimaa Kommunistlik Partei, in Russian: Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Estonii) is a political party in Estonia. EKP was formed in 1990 through a split in the original EKP, as the pro-reform majority faction of EKP separated itself from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and became the Estonian Democratic Labour Party. The minority faction of pro-Soviet hardliners called their party EKP (NLKP), or 'Communist Party of Estonia (CPSU)'.

Reportedly, a very small group of militants carried on their cause, initially their grouping was affiliated with the Union of Communist Parties - Communist Party of the Soviet Union (SKP-KPSS), but when SKP-KPSS split in 2001 they joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union of Oleg Shenin. In 2005, the only known member of the grouping is Juri Mišin, a leader of ethnic Russian nationalists; the 'party' itself actually exists only in CPSU lists.[1]