The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) (Russian: Коммунисти́ческая Па́ртия Сове́тского Сою́за, transliterated Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza, acronym: КПСС (KPSS)) was the ruling and only legal political party in the Soviet Union (until it was briefly banned during the collapse of the Soviet Union) and one of the largest communist organizations in the world.
It emerged from the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democra...
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The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) (Russian: Коммунисти́ческая Па́ртия Сове́тского Сою́за, transliterated Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza, acronym: КПСС (KPSS)) was the ruling and only legal political party in the Soviet Union (until it was briefly banned during the collapse of the Soviet Union) and one of the largest communist organizations in the world.
It emerged from the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin. The party led the 1917 October Revolution that overthrew the Russian Provisional Government and established the world's first socialist state. Given the central role under the Constitution of the Soviet Union, the party controlled all tiers of government in the Soviet Union and did not tolerate any opposition. Its organization was subdivided into communist parties of the constituent Soviet republics as well as the mass youth organization, Komsomol.
The party was also the driving force...
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