Communist Party of Russia (B)

This article covers the historic Communist Party of Russia. For further meanings see Communist Party of the Soviet Union or Communist Party of the Russian Federation .

The Communist Party of Russia (B) , KPR (B), with the addition (B) for Bolsheviks ( Russian Российская Коммунистическая партия (большевиков), РКП (б) ), was the name of the Communist Party in Russia between 1918 and 1925.

It emerged from the faction of the Bolsheviks under Lenin of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party . After the party split into two camps, at the 1903 party congress, the Bolsheviks (majority) and Mensheviks (minority), the faction called itself the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Russia (Bolsheviks) , RSDAP (B) . The parliamentary group constituted itself in 1912 as an independent party. After the October Revolution of 1917, the Bolsheviks renamed themselves the Communist Party of Russia (B) in 1918 . In 1925 the party was renamed the Communist All- Union Party (Bolsheviks) ( Vsesojusnaja Kommunistitscheskaja Partija , WKP (B) ). Since 1952 the party called itself the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ).

literature

• Yevgeny Zhukov and a .: Sovetskaja istoritscheskaja enziklopedija: Tom 7 . Sowetskaja enziklopedija, Moscow 1965, col. 671 ff. (Russian)