The Russian United Social Democratic Party ( Russian : Российская объединённая социал-демократическая партия , romanized : Rossiyskaya ob"yedinennaya sotsial-demokraticheskaya partiya ; ROSDP) was a short-lived Russian center-left political party led by Mikhail Gorbachev , the former president of the USSR . The party included representatives on an individual basis:
8-610: In 2001, the party merged with the RPSD in the Social Democratic Party of Russia At the beginning of 2000, the leaders and representatives of a number of social democratic parties and organizations decided to appeal to the former President of the USSR M. Gorbachev with an appeal to unite and lead the social democratic movement in Russia. The moment was not chosen by chance: on the one hand, there
16-689: The ROSDP includes representatives of the former SDPR (B. Orlov), the RSDS (B. Guseletov, A. Lukichev), the Social Democrats movement ( G. Popov ), the International Union (A. Mikitaev) and others. The ROSDP declared itself the heir to the traditions of the RSDLP (Mensheviks) . The ROSDP came out against "liberal fundamentalism, the implementation of which has led the country to decline in the last ten years," and against
24-581: The Yeltsin era. At the beginning of its activity, the PSD positioned itself as a right-wing liberal party. But with the arrival of K. Titov in the party, the PSD began to evolve towards the "new" European Social Democracy, standing on the positions of the Manifesto of T. Blair and G. Schroeder "Europe: The Third Way." After a series of consultations, an agreement was reached on the creation of a united social democratic party on
32-470: The basis of the ROSDP and the PSD. On November 25, the parties officially merged into the Social Democratic Party of Russia Gavriil Popov (politician) Gavriil Kharitonovich Popov (Russian: Гавриил Харитонович Попов , IPA: [ɡəvrʲɪˈiɫ xərʲɪˈtonəvʲɪtɕ pɐˈpof] ; born 31 October 1936), anglicised as Gabriel Popov , is a Russian politician and economist. He served as
40-629: The mayor of Moscow from 1991 until he resigned in 1992. Born to a Greek family in Moscow, Popov graduated Moscow Lomonosov University in political economy. He joined the Soviet Communist Party in 1959 and served as a secretary of the Komsomol committee of his university. Popov remained at the faculty of economics as a graduate student, then docent, and in 1978 became dean of the faculty. Yegor Gaidar , who would become Prime Minister of Russia ,
48-602: The strategy of catch-up modernization for Russia. The party was officially registered on May 29, 2000 In 2001, the Party of Social Democracy (PSD) of the Governor of the Samara Region Konstantin Titov joined the initiative of Mikhail Gorbachev. The design and estimate documentation was created by one of the former architects of perestroika (now deceased) A.N. Yakovlev, who switched to radical reformist positions during
56-534: Was a complete crisis of Russian social democracy, and on the other hand, with Yeltsin's departure from the Russian political arena, Gorbachev's return to it became quite possible. On March 11, 2000 M. Gorbachev headed the Russian United Social Democratic Party (ROSDP), which managed to unite in its ranks representatives of about twelve social democratic parties and organizations. The leadership of
64-506: Was one of his students. During Perestroika Popov became heavily involved in politics. On June 12, 1991, he became the first democratically elected mayor of Moscow . In 1990, he left the CPSU , following Boris Yeltsin 's lead at the 28th Congress . He resigned in 1992 and was replaced by the vice-mayor, Yury Luzhkov . In January 2010, he and Luzhkov published an article highly critical of Yegor Gaidar. After 1992, Popov returned to academia. He
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