Union of Communist Parties - Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Union of Communist Parties - Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Chairman	logo
Gennady Zyuganov
Basic data
Art	Umbrella organization
Alignment	Communism Marxism Leninism Internationalism
distribution	Post-Soviet States
Establishment date	1993
Place of foundation	Moscow
Chairman	Gennady Zyuganov
Deputy	Kazbek Taisayev
Addresses
Website	skp-kpss.ru
structure
structure	Member parties in 18 post-Soviet states and de facto states

The Union of Communist Parties - Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( Russian Союз коммунистических партий - КПСС; СКП - КПСС ; SKP - KPSS ) is an association of communist parties in the former Soviet Union , which has been operating in the successor republics since 1993.

The chairman of the organization is Gennady Zyuganov , who in 2001 replaced the previous long-time chairman, Oleg Shenin . This split off from the UdKP-CPSU as the Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Schenin .

Member parties

The organization consists of the following member parties:

State / de facto state	Names	activity	Parliament seats
Armenia	Armenian Communist Party	Extra-parliamentary opposition	0/132
Azerbaijan	Azerbaijani Communist Party	Extra-parliamentary opposition	0/125
Belarus	Communist Party of Belarus	Government Junior Partner	11/110
Estonia	Communist Party of Estonia	Banned in 1990, successor parties	-
Georgia	United Communist Party of Georgia	Extra-parliamentary opposition	0/150
Abkhazia	Communist Party of Abkhazia	Extra-parliamentary opposition	0/35
South Ossetia	Communist Party of South Ossetia	Parliamentary opposition	2/34
Kazakhstan	Communist Party of Kazakhstan	Banned in 2015, active underground	-
Kyrgyzstan	Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan	Extra-parliamentary opposition	0/120
Latvia	Communist Party of Latvia	Banned in 1991, active underground	-
Lithuania	Communist Party of Lithuania	Banned in 1992, active underground	-
Republic of Moldova	Communist Party of Moldova	Extra-parliamentary opposition	0/101
Transnistria	Transnistrian Communist Party	Parliamentary opposition	1/43
Russia	Communist Party of the Russian Federation	Parliamentary opposition	43/450
Tajikistan	Communist Party of Tajikistan	Parliamentary opposition	2/63
Turkmenistan	Communist Party of Turkmenistan	Banned in 1991, active underground	-
Ukraine	Communist Party of Ukraine	Banned in 2015, active underground	-
Uzbekistan	Communist Party of Uzbekistan	Banned in 1994, active underground	-

observer

State / de facto state	Names	activity	Parliament seats
Kazakhstan	Communist People's Party of Kazakhstan	Parliamentary opposition	7/98
in the territory of Ukraine :
Donetsk People's Republic	Communist Party of the Donetsk People's Republic	Extra-parliamentary opposition	0/100
Lugansk People's Republic	Union of Communists of the Luhansk Region	Extra-parliamentary opposition	0/50

See also

• CPSU

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://skpkpss.ru/o-skp-kpss/

Web links

• Official website of the Union of Communist Parties - Communist Party of the Soviet Union
• KPRF
• Communism: A Love Affair ?: Russians Nostalgic for Soviet Social Services by The Global Post