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]

StatePartyElectionLower houseUpper houseLeader
 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 authoritiesVacant
 Georgia Unified Communist Party of Georgia 2016 election
0 / 150
—Nugzar Avaliani
 Kazakhstan Communist Party of Kazakhstan Banned by the authoritiesGalziz Aldamzharov
 Kyrgyzstan Party of Communists of Kyrgyzstan 2015 election
0 / 120
(didn't participate)		 —Ishak Masaliev
 Latvia Communist Party of Latvia Banned by the authoritiesUnderground
 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 authoritiesSerdar 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
  • Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria are partially or wholly unrecognised states.

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. Archived from the original on 2017-10-08. Retrieved 2017-05-31.
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