Communist Party of the Soviet Union (2001)

For other parties of this name, see Communist Party of the Soviet Union (disambiguation).

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. It had been led by Shenin until his death in May 2009.

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)

Members

• United Communist Party of Armenia
• Communist Party of Azerbaijan
• Republican Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus
• Communist Party of Estonia
• New Communist Party of Georgia
• Communist Party of Kazakhstan
• Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan
• Socialist People's Front
• Communist Party of Moldova
• Communist Party of Pridnestrovie
• Russian Communist Workers' Party of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
• Party of Communists of the Republic of South Ossetia
• Union of Communists of Ukraine
• Communist Party of Uzbekistan

External links

• Homepage