Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Союз коммунистических партий – Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза
Leader Gennady Zyuganov
Founder Oleg Shenin
Founded 1993
Headquarters Moscow, Russia
Youth wing MSKO Komsomol
Ideology Communism
Marxism–Leninism
Political position Far-left
Colours Red
Website
www.skp-kpss.ru

The Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Russian: Союз коммунистических партий – Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза; СКП–КПСС; UPC–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 of the communist parties of the former Soviet Union:[2]

State Party Election Lower house Upper house Leader
 Abkhazia Communist Party of Abkhazia 2017 election
0 / 35
 — Lev Shamba
 Armenia Armenian Communist Party 2017 election
0 / 131
 — Tachat Sargsyan
 Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Communist Party 2015 election
0 / 125
 — Rauf Gurbanov
 Belarus Communist Party of Belarus 2016 election
8 / 110
17 / 64
 Igor Karpenko
 Estonia Communist Party of Estonia Banned by the authorities Vacant
 Georgia Unified Communist Party of Georgia 2016 election
0 / 150
 — Nugzar Avaliani
 Kazakhstan Communist Party of Kazakhstan Banned by the authorities Galziz Aldamzharov
 Kyrgyzstan Party of Communists of Kyrgyzstan 2015 election
0 / 120
 — Ishak Masaliev
 Latvia Communist Party of Latvia Banned by the authorities Underground
 Lithuania Communist Party of Lithuania Underground
 Moldova Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova 2014 election
21 / 101
 — Vladimir Voronin
 Russia Communist Party of the Russian Federation 2016 election
42 / 450
2 / 170
 Gennady Zyuganov
 South Ossetia Communist Party of South Ossetia 2014 election
0 / 34
 — Stanislav Kochiev
 Tajikistan Communist Party of Tajikistan 2015 election
2 / 63
 — Shodi Shabdolov
 Transnistria Pridnestrovie Communist Party 2015 election
1 / 43
 — Oleg Khorzhan
 Turkmenistan Communist Party of Turkmenistan Banned by the authorities Serdar Rakhimov
 Ukraine Communist Party of Ukraine Petro Symonenko
 Uzbekistan Communist Party of Uzbekistan 2014–2015 election
(didn't participate)
0 / 135
0 / 100
 Kakhramon Makhmudov

See also

References

  1. 1 2 March, Luke (2002). The Communist Party in Post-Soviet Russia. Manchester University Press. p. 20. ISBN 9780719060441.
  2. ↑ "ЦК КПРФ \ Вестник организационо-партийной и кадровой работы". www.kprf-org.ru. Retrieved 2017-05-31.
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