Communist Party of the Soviet Union (2001)

Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Коммунистическая Партия Советского Союза
Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza
Communist Party of the Soviet Union Коммунистическая Партия Советского Союза; Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza
Leader	Sergey Alexandrov
Founded	21 July 2001
Split from	Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Headquarters	Moscow, Russia
Ideology	Communism; Marxism–Leninism; Anti-revisionism
Political position	Far-left
European affiliation	INITIATIVE (defunct)
International affiliation	IMCWP; ICS (defunct)
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.^[1] It had been led by Shenin until his death in May 2009.^[2]

Leaders

Party		State
	United Communist Party of Armenia	Armenia
	Communist Party of Azerbaijan^[3]^[a]	Azerbaijan
	Republican Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus	Belarus
	Communist Party of Estonia	Estonia
	New Communist Party of Georgia	Georgia
	Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan	Kyrgyzstan
	Socialist People's Front	Lithuania
	Russian Communist Workers' Party of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union	Russia
	Party of Communists of the Republic of South Ossetia	South Ossetia^[b]
	Socialist Party of Latvia	Latvia

^ Note that there are two parties named "Communist Party of Azerbaijan". They are completely different parties, with completely different leaders. One is a member of the "Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union", while the other one is a member of the "Communist Party of the Soviet Union (2001)".
^ South Ossetia is a partially recognized state.

^ Οι εξελίξεις στην Ενωση Κομμουνιστικών Κομμάτων - ΚΚΣΕ (in Greek). Rizospastis. 11 February 2001. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
^ Осторожно, товарищи! Очередная провокация! (in Russian). 21 November 2011. Archived from the original on 26 November 2012. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
^ Partiyası, Azərbaycan Kommunist; [email protected], azkp org. "Azərbaycan Kommunist Partiyası". azkp.org. Retrieved 2021-06-12.

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