Arnold Koop

Arnold Koop (16 July 1922, Saint Petersburg Governorate – 21 April 1988 Moscow) was a Soviet Estonian pedagog and Communist Party functionary.^[1]

Arnold Koop
Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic
In office 19 March 1967 – 13 June 1971 Serving with Ilmar Vahe
Preceded by	Vaino Väljas
Succeeded by	Ilmar Vahe
Personal details
Born	(1922-07-16)July 16, 1922 Saint Petersburg Governorate
Died	April 21, 1988(1988-04-21) (aged 65) Moscow, Soviet Union
Political party	CPSU

From 1960 until 1968 he was the rector of Tallinn Pedagogical Institute. From 1970 to 1988 he was the rector of the University of Tartu,^[1] where he was responsible for exerting political control at the university, closing the sociology laboratory and dismissing its director, and shifting its focus from Estonian to Soviet studies.^[2] Koop was known as ideologically orthodox Communist, who supported Neo-Stalinist tightening up policies of the 1970s Brezhnev era.^[3]