Communist Party of the Soviet Union topic
Also known as
- CPSU
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Russian: Коммунисти́ческая Па́ртия Сове́тского Сою́за, transliterated Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza, acronym: КПСС (KPSS)) was the ruling political party in 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 Russian ideologue Vladimir Lenin. The party led the 1917 October Revolution that overthrew the Tsar...
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