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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Vagarshak Ter-Vaganyan memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Nadezhda Krupskaya memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Vasilevsky memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
subject surface form: Aleksandr Vasilevsky
Supreme Commander-in-Chief politicalControl Communist Party of the Soviet Union
subject surface form: Supreme Commander-in-Chief (Soviet Union)
Andrei Vyshinsky memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Soviet Border Troops allegiance Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Polish–Soviet relations hasKeyOrganization Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Nina Khrushcheva associatedWith Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Mikhail Kirponos memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Valentina Matviyenko memberOfPoliticalParty Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Alexander Rutskoy memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine dominantParty Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Lev Kamenev politicalAffiliation Communist Party of the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Third International notableMemberOrganization Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Third International parentOrganization Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Todor Zhivkov memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: Communist Party of the Soviet Union (honorary/associate ties)
Todor Zhivkov alliedWith Communist Party of the Soviet Union
CPSU Central Committee departments operatedBy Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Moscow Sun Yat-sen University affiliation Communist Party of the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Richard Pickel governingAuthorityDuringTrial Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Zhores Alferov politicalAffiliation Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Grigory Zinoviev memberOfPoliticalParty Communist Party of the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Kullervo Manner memberOfPoliticalParty Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Galina Ulanova memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Konstantin Kuzakov memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Vasily Ulrikh memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Yuri Brezhnev memberOfPoliticalParty Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Lavrentiy Beria memberOfPoliticalParty Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Lavrentiy Beria memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Orgburo of the CPSU partOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
MFA of the USSR workedWith Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Eduard Shevardnadze memberOfPoliticalParty Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Molotov memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
subject surface form: Vyacheslav Molotov
Agitprop politicalAlignment Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Agitprop controlledBy Communist Party of the Soviet Union
All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions controlledBy Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Genrikh Yagoda memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Leonid Govorov memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Raisa Maksimovna Titarenko memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Soviet of Nationalities deFactoDominantParty Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Skryabin memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Skryabin memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Dmitry Ustinov memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Adolf Joffe memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Pavel Kutakhov memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Kazakh SSR rulingParty Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Leningrad City Soviet controlledBy Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Polina Zhemchuzhina memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union