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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Polina Zhemchuzhina memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
People's Commissariat for Justice politicallyControlledBy Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Andrei Gromyko memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Karl Radek memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Dmitri Shostakovich memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Ivan Smirnov memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Grigory Yevdokimov memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Tatar ASSR rulingParty Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Karol Świerczewski memberOfPoliticalParty Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic subordinateTo Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Soviet Jewry governedBy Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Anna Dmitrievna Lyubimova spousePoliticalAffiliation Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Ordzhonikidze associatedWith Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Alexei Rykov memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Vasily Sokolovsky memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Stalin family politicalAssociation Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Станіслав Вікентійович Косіор memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: Всесоюзна комуністична партія (більшовиків)
Станіслав Вікентійович Косіор employer Communist Party of the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: Комуністична партія Радянського Союзу
Kiril Moskalenko memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Anatoly Sobchak memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
George Padmore memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Pavel Piatakov memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Christian Rakovsky memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Kostrikov memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
subject surface form: Sergei Kirov
First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) partOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) politicalParty Communist Party of the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
First Secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) usedBy Communist Party of the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Zhdanovshchina cultural campaign implementedBy Communist Party of the Soviet Union
People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the USSR politicalAlignment Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Soviet Armed Forces in World War II politicalControl Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Mikhail Kalashnikov memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
People's Commissar for Internal Affairs of the RSFSR controlledBy Communist Party of the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Mikhail Sholokhov memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Soviet MGB collaboratedWith Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Suslov memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
subject surface form: Mikhail Suslov
Suslov affiliation Communist Party of the Soviet Union
subject surface form: Mikhail Suslov
Second Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union scopeOfAuthority Communist Party of the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: entire Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Artem Mikoyan memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Iron Felix memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
subject surface form: Felix Dzerzhinsky
Western Oblast (Russian SFSR) rulingParty Communist Party of the Soviet Union
office of General Secretary of the CPSU appliesToOrganization Communist Party of the Soviet Union
office of General Secretary of the CPSU deFactoHeadOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Pasha Angelina politicalAffiliation Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Andrei Sverdlov associatedWith Communist Party of the Soviet Union
First Secretary of the Hungarian Working People's Party influencedBy Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Yuri Luzhkov memberOfPoliticalParty Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Arkady Rosengolts memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)