{{Short description|Estonian politician}} {{BLP sources|date=October 2023}} '''Toomas Alatalu''' (born 23 August 1942 in Rakvere) is an Estonian historian, educator, political commentator and politician. He has been a member of VII, VIII and X Riigikogu.<ref name="riigikogu.ee">{{cite web |title=Juhatus ja liikmed |url=https://www.riigikogu.ee/tutvustus-ja-ajalugu/riigikogu-ajalugu/x-riigikogu-koosseis/juhatus-ja-liikmed/ |website=Riigikogu |access-date=16 February 2021 |language=et}}</ref>
==Education== Alatalu graduated from {{ill|Pärnu Ülejõe Primary School|lt=Pärnu Secondary School No. 4|et|Pärnu Ülejõe Põhikool}} in 1960 and from the Faculty of History and Linguistics of Tartu State University in 1965, majoring in history.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sexton |first1=William |title=The Other Detente—With Soviet Minorities |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-suffolk-edition-toomas-alatalu/162151003/ |work=Newsday (Suffolk Edition) |date=April 21, 1976 | location=Melville, NY |page=45 |access-date=January 3, 2025 |via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}</ref>
In 1977, he defended his PhD in philosophy at Leningrad State University with the dissertation ''Революционная ситуация и особенности ее созревания в Латинской Америке'' (The Revolutionary Situation and Peculiarities of Its Maturation in Latin America).<ref>{{cite web |title=Toomas Alatalu |url=https://www.etis.ee/CV/Toomas_Alatalu/eng |website=Estonian Research Information System (ETIS) |publisher=Ministry of Education and Research |access-date=January 3, 2025}}</ref>
==Political career== From 1999 until 2005 he belonged to the Estonian Centre Party. From 2005 until 2009, he was a member of the People's Union of Estonia party. Between 2009 and 2018, he was a member of the Social Democratic Party.<ref name="riigikogu.ee" />
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