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Oskar Suursööt

Estonian politician (1893-1950)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ16405639 ↗
Source-derived summary

Oskar Albert Suursööt (30 May 1893 – 3 February 1942 Vyatlag labour camp, Kirov oblast, Russia) was an Estonian politician.

1932 he was Minister of Economic Affairs. Arrested by the NKVD on 24 July 1940, was detained in the Gulag prison camp system in Kirov Oblast where he died in custody.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Oskar Suursööt” as estonian politician (1893-1950). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1893, 1942, 1932, 1940—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1893-05-30. The account is most persuasive where Oskar, Suursööt and Estonian can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as estonian politician (1893-1950). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16405639. VIAF identifies the subject as 8643149544626400490003. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1893, 1942, 1932 and 1940.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Oskar Suursööt”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Oskar Suursööt primary sources, Oskar Suursööt archive and Oskar research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Oskar Suursööt”?
  2. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
  3. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
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This entry incorporates text from “Oskar Suursööt” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.