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]
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]