Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1992)
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Communist Party of the Soviet Union (in Russian: Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза) is a political party led by Sergei Skvortsov, operating in the countries of the former Soviet Union. The party was founded in 1992 at the so-called 29th Restorative CPSU Congress, which, among other actions, excluded Mikhail Gorbachev from the CPSU. The party claims to be the inheritors of the legacy of the original Communist Party of the Soviet Union and among its goals states the restoration of the Soviet Union.
The party has launched several front groups, such as the All-Russian Committee for Defence of Kuriles, Movement for Social Justice, and the Inter-Regional Strike Committee.
The central publication of the party is Narodnaya Gazeta (Народная газета, "People's Newspaper"). Skvortsov is the First Secretary of the party as well as the editor-in-chief of the publication.
On 13 October 2005, during the shoot-out in Nalchik, the party criticized the Russian government for indifference to the socio-economic problems fomenting terrorism.
