Communist Party of the Soviet Union Коммунистическая Партия Советского Союза Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza | |
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Leader | Sergey Alexandrov |
Founded | 21 July 2001 |
Split from | Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
Headquarters | Moscow, Russia |
Ideology | Communism Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism |
Political position | Far-left |
European affiliation | INITIATIVE (defunct) |
International affiliation | IMCWP ICS (defunct) |
Colours | Red |
Party flag | |
Website | |
cpsu.by |
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Russian: Коммунистическая Партия Советского Союза, Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza; short: КПСС, KPSS) is an organization which split from the Union of Communist Parties — Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 2001 after disagreements between Oleg Shenin and Gennady Zyuganov over the creation of a united communist party of the Union of Belarus and Russia.[1] It had been led by Shenin until his death in May 2009.[2]
Party | State | |
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United Communist Party of Armenia | Armenia | |
Communist Party of Azerbaijan[3][a] | Azerbaijan | |
Republican Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus | Belarus | |
Communist Party of Estonia | Estonia | |
New Communist Party of Georgia | Georgia | |
Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan | Kyrgyzstan | |
Socialist People's Front | Lithuania | |
Russian Communist Workers' Party of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union | Russia | |
Party of Communists of the Republic of South Ossetia | South Ossetia[b] | |
Socialist Party of Latvia | Latvia |