Arnold Koop (16 July 1922,

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– 21 April 1988

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) was a

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n pedagog and Communist Party functionary. From 1960 until 1968 he was the rector of

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. From 1970 to 1988 he was the rector of the University of Tartu, 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. Koop was known as ideologically orthodox Communist, who supported Neo-Stalinist tightening up policies of the 1970s

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era.

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