Communist Party of the Soviet Union

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political party ruling party

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the ruling Marxist–Leninist political party that dominated the government and society of the Soviet Union from its founding after the Russian Revolution until its dissolution in 1991.

Aliases (16)

Statements (62)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	political party → ruling party →
abbreviation	КПСС →
associatedWithEvent	August 1991 Soviet coup attempt → Brezhnev stagnation → Great Purge → Khrushchev Thaw → October Revolution → Russian Civil War → collectivization in the Soviet Union → de-Stalinization → glasnost → perestroika →
bannedBy	Boris Yeltsin (as President of the RSFSR) in 1991 →
childrenWing	Young Pioneers →
constitutionalRole	leading and guiding force of Soviet society and the nucleus of its political system →
constitutionalRoleAdopted	1977 Soviet Constitution →
controlOverSociety	dominated political, economic, and social life of the Soviet Union →
controlOverState	dominated government of the Soviet Union →
country	Soviet Union →
deFactoStatus	only legal party in the Soviet Union for most of its existence →
dissolved	1991 →
executiveOrgan	Politburo →
flag	red flag with hammer and sickle and star →
founded	1912 →
foundedAs	Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) →
founder	Vladimir Lenin →
headquarters	Moscow →
highestBody	Party Congress →
ideology	Marxism–Leninism →
influenced	communist parties worldwide →
internationalAffiliation	Cominform (from 1947 to 1956) → Comintern (until 1943) →
keyFigure	Joseph Stalin → Konstantin Chernenko → Leonid Brezhnev → Mikhail Gorbachev → Nikita Khrushchev → Vladimir Lenin → Yuri Andropov →
leaderTitle	General Secretary of the Central Committee →
leadingOrgan	Central Committee →
legalStatus	banned in 1991 in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic →
membershipPeak	over 19 million members →
membershipPeakYear	1980s →
nativeName	Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза →
paramilitaryWing	Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (in early years closely linked) →
partyNewspaper	Pravda →
partySystemRole	vanguard party →
politicalPosition	far-left →
precededBy	All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) → Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) → Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) →
renamed	All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in 1925 → Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1952 → Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in 1918 →
secretariat	Secretariat of the CPSU Central Committee →
shortName	CPSU →
stateDoctrine	democratic centralism →
successor	Communist Party of the Russian Federation (as main Russian communist successor) →
symbol	hammer and sickle →
youthWing	Komsomol →

Referenced by (222)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Aleksandr Vasilevsky → Aleksandr Vasilevsky → Alexander Rutskoy → Alexander Svanidze → Alexei Kosygin → Alexei Kosygin ("All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)") → Anastas Mikoyan → Anatoly Lukyanov → Andrei Tupolev → Andrei Vyshinsky → Andrei Zhdanov → Andrei Zhdanov ("All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)") → Andrey Yeremenko → Arnold Koop → Boris Pugo → Boris Shaposhnikov → Dmitry Yazov → Ernő Gerő → Felix Dzerzhinsky ("All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)") → Gennady Yanayev → Georgy Malenkov → Georgy Malenkov ("All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)") → Georgy Zhukov → Ivan Bagramyan → Ivan Bakayev ("All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)") → Ivan Konev → Joseph Stalin → Joseph Stalin ("Bolsheviks") → Kirill Meretskov → Kliment Voroshilov → Konstantin Chernenko → Konstantin Rokossovsky → Kuzma Derevyanko → Lazar Kaganovich → Leon Trotsky → Leonid Brezhnev → Leonid Kravchuk → Mikhail Gorbachev → Mikhail Kalinin ("All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)") → Mikhail Kalinin → Mikhail Kirponos → Mikhail Shumilov → Mikhail Suslov → Mikhail Suslov ("All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)") → Mikhail Tukhachevsky → Nadezhda Alliluyeva → Nadezhda Krupskaya → Nikita Khrushchev → Nikolai Bukharin ("All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)") → Nikolai Bulganin → Nikolai Ogarkov → Nikolai Ryzhkov → Nikolai Tikhonov → Nikolai Vatutin → Nikolai Yezhov ("All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)") → Oleg Baklanov → Pavel Postyshev → Pavel Postyshev ("All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)") → Raisa Gorbacheva → Rodion Malinovsky → Sergei Akhromeyev → Sergei Korolev → Stanislav Kosior ("All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)") → Todor Zhivkov ("Communist Party of the Soviet Union (honorary/associate ties)") → Vagarshak Ter-Vaganyan → Valentin Pavlov → Vasily Chuikov → Vasily Stalin → Vladimir Kryuchkov → Vladimir Lenin → Vladimir Putin → Wanda Wasilewska → Yuri Andropov →	memberOf
Boris Yeltsin → Grigory Zinoviev ("All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)") → Maxim Litvinov → Semyon Budyonny → Semyon Timoshenko → Sergei Kirov ("All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)") → Valentina Matviyenko → Vyacheslav Molotov ("All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)") → Vyacheslav Molotov →	memberOfPoliticalParty
Communist Party of Ukraine → Czechoslovak Communist Party ("Communist Party of the Soviet Union (politically and ideologically)") → MGB ("Soviet Communist Party leadership") → Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Army and Navy → Ministry of Defense of the USSR → NKGB → Soviet High Command → Soviet armed forces → Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR →	subordinateTo
1937 Soviet legislative election ("All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)") → Comintern → Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR → Komsomol → Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union → Pravda → Soviet Internal Troops → Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union →	controlledBy
Ivan Bakayev → Konstantin Chernenko → Nadezhda Alliluyeva → Nikolai Ryzhkov → Nikolai Yezhov → Oleg Baklanov → Pavel Postyshev → Sergei Kirov ("All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)") →	employer
Chinese Communist Party ("Soviet Communist Party") → Gennady Yanayev → Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party → MSZMP → Polish Committee of National Liberation → Polish United Workers' Party → Polish Workers' Party → Society for German–Soviet Friendship →	influencedBy
1937 Soviet legislative election ("All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)") → Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union → Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union → Congress of Soviets of the Soviet Union ("All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)") → First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine → Moscow City Soviet of People’s Deputies → Soviet period →	dominantParty
Central Auditing Commission of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union → Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union → First Secretary of the Communist Party of Moldavia → General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union → Party Congress → Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union → Secretariat of the CPSU Central Committee →	partOf
Alexey Stakhanov ("Soviet Communist Party") → First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR → Kremlin Wall Necropolis → Marxism–Leninism → Nina Khrushcheva →	associatedWith
RSFSR → Russian SFSR → Russian SFSR ("Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic") → Soviet Union → Soviet government →	rulingParty
Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic → Komsomol → Third International → VLKSM →	parentOrganization
KGB → Soviet Border Troops → Soviet Ground Forces →	allegiance
Bulgarian Communist Party → Socialist Unity Party of Germany → Todor Zhivkov →	alliedWith
MVD → Soviet military officers → Stalingrad →	governedBy
Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union → Great Purge → Soviet partisans →	organizedBy
RKKA → Soviet Internal Troops → Supreme Commander-in-Chief (Soviet Union) →	politicalControl
Moscow Sun Yat-sen University ("All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)") → Nikolai Tikhonov ("Communist Party of the Soviet Union leadership") →	affiliation
Central Auditing Commission of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union → Commission of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) ("All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)") →	jurisdiction
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) ("All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)") → Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks) →	laterKnownAs
Lev Kamenev ("All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)") → Zhores Alferov →	politicalAffiliation
Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization → Young Pioneers →	politicalAlignment
Communist Party of the Russian Federation → KPRF →	predecessor
Communist Party of the Russian Federation → KPRF →	principalSuccessorOf
On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences ("Communist Party of the Soviet Union (internal circulation)") → Pravda →	publisher
Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the USSR → hammer and sickle →	usedBy
Communist Party of the Soviet Union ("КПСС") →	abbreviation
VLKSM →	affiliatedWith
1937 Soviet legislative election ("All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)") →	allowedParties
glasnost policy →	appliesTo
Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union →	appliesToOrganization
Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union →	appliesToPoliticalParty
Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian SFSR →	associatedWithParty
Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union →	category
Pravda →	ceasedToBeOfficialOrganOf
Communist Party of the Russian Federation →	claimsHeirOf
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union →	controlledOrganization
Central Auditing Commission of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union →	dissolvedWith
1936 Constitution of the Soviet Union →	enshrinedRoleOfParty
Soviet Union ("Bolsheviks") →	foundedBy
Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union →	governedByParty
Richard Pickel →	governingAuthorityDuringTrial
Komi ASSR →	governingParty
9th Army (Red Army) →	governingPartyOfState
Soviet military officers ("Communist Party") →	hadOathTo
Polish–Soviet relations →	hasKeyOrganization
Central Committee →	historicallyNotableIn
Perestroika →	implementedBy
NKVD →	loyalTo
1989 Soviet legislative election →	mainRulingParty
Cominform →	memberOrganization
Communist Party of the Soviet Union ("Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза") →	nativeName
Third International →	notableMemberOrganization
Pravda →	officialNewspaperOf
CPSU Central Committee departments →	operatedBy
Left Opposition ("All‑Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)") →	organizedIn
Stalinist repressions →	organizer
Pravda →	ownedBy
Boris Yeltsin (as President of the RSFSR) in 1991 ("Russian Communist Party (until July 1990, background)") →	partyAffiliation
Lenin Prize →	politicalContext
Brezhnev stagnation →	politicalPartyInPower
Communist Party of the Soviet Union ("All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)") →	precededBy
1977 Constitution of the Soviet Union →	primaryAuthoritativeBody
Stakhanovite movement →	promotedBy
Komsomol →	recruitmentSourceFor
Communist Party of the Soviet Union ("All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in 1925") →	renamed
Soviet military officers →	requiredMembership
1937 Soviet legislative election ("All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)") →	rulingPartyAfterElection
1937 Soviet legislative election ("All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)") →	rulingPartyBeforeElection
Communist Party of the Soviet Union ("CPSU") →	shortName
Kato Svanidze →	spousePoliticalAffiliation
Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic →	subdivisionOf