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Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Communist Party of the Soviet Union Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза | |
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| Abbreviation | CPSU |
| General Secretary | Joseph Stalin (first) |
| Founder | Vladimir Lenin |
| Founded | January 1912 (as the RSDLP(b)) |
| Split from | RSDLP |
| Newspaper | Pravda |
| Youth wing | Komsomol |
| Ideology |
Communism Bolshevism Marxism–Leninism |
| Slogan | Workers of the world, unite! |
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union[a] (CPSU), also known as the Soviet Communist Party or Bolshevik Party was a Marxist–Leninist communist party. It has its origins in the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (Bolshevik), founded at the Prague Conference in 1912. The CPSU was the ruling party of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for its entire existence.
Further reading
- History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) (1939). Available on the Marxists Internet Archive
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Notes
- ↑ Russian: Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза