Communist Party of Abkhazia

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Communist Party of Abkhazia (in Georgian: Afkhazetis Komunisturi Partia), political party in the Georgian break-away republic of Abkhazia. The party leader is Oleg Damenia.

CPA was founded in March 1921 with the demand of a separate Abkhaz Soviet Republic. It was then led by E. Eshba.[1] Eshba had formed a Bolshevik military-revolutionary committee in Sukhumi in the summer of 1918. Eshba's group demanded direct integration of Abkhazia into the Soviet Union. During the Soviet period, CPA was a part of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, CPA was reconstructed as an independent party. In 1988 CPA had demanded Abkhaz secession.

CPA maintains close contacts with groups in Russia. It is affiliated to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union led by Oleg Shenin. However, in difference from many of the other communist organisations in the region, CPA has denounced the political legacy of Stalin.