Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union explained

Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Native Name Lang:	ru
Abbreviation:	UCP–CPSU (English) SKP–KPSS (Russian)
Leader1 Title:	Chairman of the Central Council
Leader1 Name:	Gennady Zyuganov
Leader2 Title:	First Deputy Chairman of the Central Council
Leader2 Name:	Kazbek Taysaev
Leader3 Title:	Secretariat of the Central Council
Founder:	Oleg Shenin
Predecessor:	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Headquarters:	Moscow, Russia
Newspaper:	Pravda Pravda Rossii Sovetskaya Rossiya
Youth Wing:	MSKO Komsomol
Ideology:	Communism Marxism–Leninism Soviet patriotism Proletarian internationalism
Position:	Far-left
Colours:	Red
Slogan:	"Workers' Power, Socialism, Soviet Union"
Seats1 Title:	Post-Soviet states Upper houses
Seats2 Title:	Post-Soviet states Lower houses
International:	IMCWP
Website:	skpkpss.ru
Country:	the Soviet Union
Country2:	Russia

The Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union (UCP–CPSU) is a federation of communist parties in the post-Soviet states founded in 1993.^[1]

Gennady Zyuganov has been the organisation's chairman since 2001. He replaced Oleg Shenin,^[1] who split off a part of the UCP–CPSU as the "Communist Party of the Soviet Union".

Composition of the UPC–CPSU

The structure of the UCP-CPSU consists of 18 communist parties within the former Soviet Union.^[2]

Members

State	Party	Election	Lower house	Upper house	Leader
	Communist Party of Abkhazia	2022 election		—	Bakur Bebia
Armenia	Armenian Communist Party	2021 election		—	Erjanik Ghazaryan (acting)
Azerbaijan	Communist Party of Azerbaijan^[3]	2020 election		—	Kurbanov Rauf Muslimovich
Belarus	Communist Party of Belarus	2024 election			Aliaksiej Sokal
Estonia	Communist Party of Estonia	2023 election	Banned in Estonia		vacant
Georgia	Unified Communist Party of Georgia	2020 election		—	Temur Pipia
Kazakhstan	Communist Party of Kazakhstan	2023 election	Banned in Kazakhstan		Toleubek Makhzhanov
Kyrgyzstan	Party of Communists of Kyrgyzstan	2021 election		—	Ishak Masaliev
	League of Communists of Latvia^[4]	2022 election	Banned in Latvia		vacant
	Communist Party of Lithuania	2020 election	Banned in Lithuania		vacant
	Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova	2021 election		—	Vladimir Voronin
	Communist Party of the Russian Federation	2021 election			Gennady Zyuganov
	Communist Party of South Ossetia	2024 election		—	Stanislav Kochiev
Tajikistan	Communist Party of Tajikistan	2020 election		—	Shodi Shabdolov
	Transnistrian Communist Party	2020 election		—	Nadezhda Bondarenko
Turkmenistan	Communist Party of Turkmenistan	2023 election	Banned in Turkmenistan		Serdar Rahimow
Ukraine	Communist Party of Ukraine	2019 election	Banned in Ukraine		Petro Symonenko
Uzbekistan	Communist Party of Uzbekistan	2020 election	Banned in Uzbekistan		Kaxramon Mahmudov

See also

• All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (1991)
• All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1995)
• Communist Party of the Soviet Union
• Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1992)
• Communist Party of the Soviet Union (2001)
• Essence of Time

External links

• Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union website (Russian)

Notes and References

1. Book: March, Luke. The Communist Party in Post-Soviet Russia. 2002. Manchester University Press. 9780719060441. 20. en.
2. Web site: ЦК КПРФ Вестник организационо-партийной и кадровой работы. www.kprf-org.ru. 31 May 2017. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20171008000906/http://www.kprf-org.ru/archiv/vestnik120/vestnik120_2.html. 8 October 2017.
3. Web site: КПА — Коммунистическая партия Азербайджана. 12 June 2021. ru-RU.
4. Web site: 2012-10-31 . Союз Коммунистических партий - КПСС . 2023-03-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121031154831/http://www.rso-kprf.ru/party/98/ . 31 October 2012 .