Communist Party of the Soviet Union (2001)

Communist Party of the Soviet Union Коммунистическая Партия Советского Союза Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza

Leader	Sergey Alexandrov
Founded	21 July 2001 (2001-07-21)
Headquarters	Moscow, Russia
Ideology	Communism Marxism–Leninism
Political position	Far-left
International affiliation	International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties International Communist Seminar
Colours	Red
Party flag

Website
cpsu.by

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Russian: Коммунистическая Партия Советского Союза, Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza; short: КПСС, KPSS) is an organization which split from the Union of Communist Parties — Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 2001 after disagreements between Oleg Shenin and Gennady Zyuganov over the creation of a united Communist Party of the Union of Belarus and Russia.^[1] It had been led by Shenin until his death in May 2009.^[2]

First Secretaries (leaders)

Oleg Shenin (21 July 2001 – 28 May 2009) (as Chairman)
Vladimir Berezin (20 March – 16 July 2010) (as First Secretary)
Sergey Alexandrov (acting 21 July 2010, official from 20 November 2010 – present)

Left-wing political parties in Russia
Registered parties	A Just Russia Agrarian Party of Russia Communist Party of Social Justice Communist Party of the Russian Federation Communists of Russia Party of Russia's Rebirth Patriots of Russia Russian United Labour Front Social Democratic Party of Russia Will
Unregistered parties	Communist Alliance of the Revolutionary Socialists AUCPB RCWP-CPSU CPSU Russian Maoist Party Vanguard of Red Youth DSPA Left Front Revolutionary Workers' Party Russian Section of the Committee for a Workers' International Russian Socialist Movement Union of Social Democrats

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