Communist Party of the Soviet Union

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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.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf political party
ruling party
abbreviation Communist Party of the Soviet Union self-linksurface differs
surface form: КПСС
associatedWithEvent August 1991 Soviet coup attempt
Brezhnev stagnation
Great Purge
de-Stalinization
surface form: Khrushchev Thaw

Russian Revolution
surface form: 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 Constitution of the Soviet Union
surface form: 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 of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
surface form: 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 of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
surface form: Central Committee
legalStatus banned in 1991 in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
membershipPeak over 19 million members
membershipPeakYear 1980s
nativeName Communist Party of the Soviet Union self-linksurface differs
surface form: Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза
paramilitaryWing Red Army
surface form: Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (in early years closely linked)
partyNewspaper Pravda
partySystemRole vanguard party
politicalPosition far-left
precededBy Communist Party of the Soviet Union self-linksurface differs
surface form: All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)
surface form: Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)
renamed Communist Party of the Soviet Union self-linksurface differs
surface form: All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in 1925

Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1952
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)
surface form: Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in 1918
secretariat Secretariat of the CPSU Central Committee
shortName Communist Party of the Soviet Union self-linksurface differs
surface form: CPSU
stateDoctrine democratic centralism
successor Communist Party of the Russian Federation (as main Russian communist successor)
symbol hammer and sickle
youthWing Komsomol

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Nikolai Tikhonov memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Nikolai Tikhonov affiliation Communist Party of the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: Communist Party of the Soviet Union leadership
Mikhail Kalinin memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Mikhail Kalinin memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Sergei Kirov memberOfPoliticalParty Communist Party of the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Sergei Kirov employer Communist Party of the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Andrei Zhdanov memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Andrei Zhdanov memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Nikolai Yezhov employer Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Nikolai Yezhov memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Ivan Konev memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Alexei Kosygin memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Alexei Kosygin memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Mikhail Suslov memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Mikhail Suslov memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Anastas Mikoyan memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Nikolai Bukharin memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
glasnost policy appliesTo Communist Party of the Soviet Union
MGB subordinateTo Communist Party of the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: Soviet Communist Party leadership
NKGB subordinateTo Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Felix Dzerzhinsky memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Valentin Pavlov memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Stakhanovite movement promotedBy Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Ernő Gerő memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization politicalAlignment Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Moscow City Soviet of People’s Deputies dominantParty Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Army and Navy subordinateTo Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the USSR usedBy Communist Party of the Soviet Union
hammer and sickle usedBy Communist Party of the Soviet Union
perestroika implementedBy Communist Party of the Soviet Union
subject surface form: Perestroika
Cominform memberOrganization Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Soviet Internal Troops controlledBy Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Soviet Internal Troops politicalControl Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Nikolai Bulganin memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
RSFSR rulingParty Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Nikolai Ryzhkov employer Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Nikolai Ryzhkov memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Maxim Litvinov memberOfPoliticalParty Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Wanda Wasilewska memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR subordinateTo Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Lazar Kaganovich memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Ministry of Defense of the USSR subordinateTo Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Georgy Malenkov memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Georgy Malenkov memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Arnold Koop memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Pavel Postyshev memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Pavel Postyshev memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Pavel Postyshev employer Communist Party of the Soviet Union