Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Details

Instance of

communist party

Inception

1 March 1898, 17 July 1903, 24 April 1917, 8 March 1918

Has parts

Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Communist Party of Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Communist Party of Byelorussia, Communist Party of Uzbekistan, Communist Party of Kazakhstan, Communist Party of Georgia, Communist Party of Azerbaijan, Communist Party of Lithuania, Communist Party of Moldavia, Communist Party of Latvia, Communist Party of Kirghizia, Communist Party of Tajikistan

Follows

Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (bolshevik)

Followed by

Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

Country

Russian Empire, Russian Republic, Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, Soviet Union

Founded by

Vladimir Lenin

Headquarters

Moscow, Staraya Square

Chaired by

Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko, Mikhail Gorbachev, Volodymyr Ivashko

anthem

The Internationale

authority

Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

different from

KPSS

dissolved, abolished or demolished date

29 August 1991

foundational text

Charter of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

has goal

membership fees, communism, internationalism

has part(s) of the class

CPSU member, candidate member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

house publication

Pravda

member category

Category:Communist Party of the Soviet Union members

member count

19468786, 19487822, 19228217, 16516066

motto

Workers of the world, unite!

motto text

Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь!

next lower rank

Communist party of a Republic of the Soviet Union, regional organization of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, regional organisation of the CPSU

official name

Российская коммунистическая партия (большевиков), Всесоюзная коммунистическая партия (большевиков), Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза, Расейская камуністычная партыя (бальшавікоў), Усесаюзная камуністычная партыя (бальшавікоў), Камуністычная партыя Савецкага Саюзу, Ümumittifaq Kommunist (bolşeviklər) Partiyası, Rusiya Kommunist (bolşeviklər) Partiyası, Sovet İttifaqı Kommunist Partiyası, Російська комуністична партія (більшовиків)

political alignment

far-left politics, left-wing

political ideology

Marxism–Leninism, socialism, anti-capitalism, Stalinism, anti-Americanism, anti-imperialism, scientific communism, anti-fascism, Soviet patriotism, proletarian internationalism, communism, criticism of liberalism

position held by head of the organization

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

short name

КПСС, ВКП(б), РКП(б), PCUS, КПРС, ВКП(б), РКП(б), КПСС, УКП(б), РКП(б), КПРС, РКП(б)

significant event

1st Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, 3rd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, 4th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, 5th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, 6th Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, 7th Congress of the Russian Communist Party, 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party, 9th Congress of the Russian Communist Party, 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party, 11th Congress of the Russian Communist Party, 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party

sRGB color hex triplet

D40000

topic's main category

Category:Communist Party of the Soviet Union

youth wing

All-Union Leninist Young Communist League

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