Edasi

Edasi

Type	Daily newspaper
Founded	1 May 1948
Language	Estonian
Ceased publication	30 December 1990
Headquarters	Tartu

Edasi (Estonian: Forward) was a newspaper published in Tartu, Estonia. The paper was published with this name between 1948 and 1990.[1]

History and profile

The paper was the successor of Postimees of which the name was changed to Edasi on 1 May 1948 to make the paper more Soviet.[1][2] It worked, and the paper became a true Soviet publication.[3] Its headquarters was in Tartu.[4][5] The paper was controlled by the Tartu Communist Party.[6] However, it was one of the Estonian media outlets not used by the Soviet officials to control Estonians.[4]

Edasi was first a local paper, but later it became a national publication.[2] During the period between 1955 and 1979 when Estonia was subject to the mental Sovietization it was one of the publications which contained political humor.[2] At the same time the paper also published travel stories and literary reviews.[3]

On 1 January 1991, Edasi regained its original name, Postimees.[1][7]

References

1. "160 Aastat Postimehega". www.postimees.ee. Retrieved 3 June 2024.
2. Maarja Lõhmus (January 2013). "Political correctness and political humour in Soviet Estonia and beyond". Folklore. 1: 139–158. doi:10.7592/ep.1.lohmus. ISBN 9789949490226.
3. Epp Lauk; Tiiu Kreegipuu (2010). "Was it all Pure Propaganda? Journalistic Practices of "Silent Resistance' in Soviet Estonia Journalism". Acta Historica Tallinnensia. 15: 167. doi:10.3176/hist.2010.1.08.
4. Stefanie Averbeck; Stefan Wehmeier (2002). Kommunikationswissenschaft und Public Relations in Osteuropa: Arbeitsberichte. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag. p. 81. ISBN 978-3-935693-67-7.
5. Peeter Vihalemm (February 2001). "Development of Media Research in Estonia". Nordicom Review. 22 (2): 79–92. doi:10.1515/nor-2017-0357. S2CID 54745912.
6. Toivo Miljan (2004). Historical Dictionary of Estonia. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. p. 467. ISBN 978-0-8108-6571-6.
7. Halliki Harro-Loit; Anu Pallas (2009). "Temporality and commemoration in Estonian dailies". In Halliki Harro-Loit; Katrin Kello (eds.). The Curving Mirror of Time. University of Tartu Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-9949-32-259-6. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015.