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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Petro Shelest memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Soviet state funerals organizedBy Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Maxim Purkayev affiliation Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Meretskov memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
subject surface form: Kirill Meretskov
Sergei Mironovich Kostrikov memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
Sergei Mironovich Kostrikov memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Sergei Mironovich Kostrikov politicalAffiliation Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Martin Latsis memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
NKWD subordinateTo Communist Party of the Soviet Union
subject surface form: NKVD
Anna Ulyanova memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Anna Ulyanova politicalParty Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan SSR politicalAlignment Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Defense Council of the USSR politicalAlignment Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Border Troops of the MGB allegiance Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Georgian Helsinki Group opposedBy Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic subordinateTo Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party influencedBy Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Soviet Militsiya controlledBy Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Islam Karimov memberOfPoliticalParty Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Vyacheslav Kebich memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Academy of Social Sciences under the CPSU Central Committee operatedBy Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Държавна сигурност closelyAssociatedWith Communist Party of the Soviet Union
this entity surface form: Комунистическа партия на Съветския съюз
Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR subordinateTo Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR controlledBy Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Sergei Gerasimov memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Nikolai Podvoisky memberOfPoliticalParty Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Qahhor Mahkamov memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Sergey Vavilov memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Emomali Rahmon memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Gustav Klutsis memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Joint State Political Directorate controlledBy Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Georgy Chicherin memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Vasily Starodubtsev memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Nikolay Cherkasov memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Grigory Shtern memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Trofim Lysenko memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Lavrentiy memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
subject surface form: Lavrentiy Beria
Pavel Sukhoi memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Nikolai Voznesensky memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Yagoda memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
subject surface form: Genrikh Yagoda
Nikolai Shvernik memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Alexander Yakovlev memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Ustinov memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
subject surface form: Dmitry Ustinov
Hirsch Apfelbaum memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Polina Semyonovna Zhemchuzhina memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Polina Molotova memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
subject surface form: Polina Zhemchuzhina
Nikolai Kuznetsov memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Sergey Sokolov memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Anatoly Lunacharsky memberOf Communist Party of the Soviet Union