59-417: CPRF (4) LDPR (1) Independent (1) The Saratov Oblast Duma ( Russian : Саратовская областная дума , romanized : Saratovskaya oblastnaya duma ) is the regional parliament of Saratov Oblast , a federal subject of Russia . A total of 45 deputies are elected for five-year terms. The 2017 Saratov Oblast Duma elections took place on 10 September 2017, and
118-679: A debate surged regarding the name of the new body. Chechen-Ingush communists argued that the name should include "RSFSR" rather than just "Russian". Moreover, decision had been passed that the congress would be divided in two sessions, before and after the 28th party congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union . The first session of the founding congress of the Communist Party of the RSFSR opened in Moscow on 19 June 1990. 2,768 delegates attended
177-562: A delegation to North Korea and signed a "protocol on cooperation" with the Workers' Party of Korea . During the visit, a stone was placed in the Juche Tower . In October 2017 the party hosted the 19th International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties in the city of Saint Petersburg, marking the centenary of the October Revolution , with an attendance of over 100 parties from around
236-420: A move to block the formation of an autonomous Russian Communist Party. However this action did not block the demand for a RSFSR Communist Party, and the newly formed RSFSR Bureau issued a call for the founding of the Communist Party of the RSFSR. This process was humiliating for Gorbachev, as it clarified that he was not fully in control of the party apparatus. Prior to the founding of the new party organization,
295-708: A pluralistic political framework. The CPRF considers the multi-sector socialist market system as developed in China to be a model which should be emulated within Russia. The party supports state ownership over major industries, the renationalization of businesses privatized after the collapse of the Soviet Union , giving out subsidies to currently existing state-owned firms and maintaining large welfare benefits. The CPRF has also maintained stable relationships with many businesses, including small and large private companies, worker cooperatives, and organizations which trace their lineage to
354-587: A relative majority in regional parliaments at the expense of deputies-single-mandate holders. Nevertheless, in Irkutsk Oblast, the party received a relative majority and is the largest faction in the Legislative Assembly. Marxist theoretician Boris Kagarlitsky wrote in 2001: "It is enough to recall that within the Communist movement itself, Zyuganov's party was at first neither the sole organisation, nor
413-473: A sharp decline in the 2003 legislative election , going from 113 seats to 52. Zyuganov called the 2003 elections a "revolting spectacle" and accused the Kremlin of setting up a " Potemkin party", Rodina , to steal its votes. The CPRF was endorsed by Sergey Baburin 's People's Union for the 2007 Russian parliamentary elections . In the 2012 presidential election , Zyuganov denounced election irregularities in
472-485: A traitor three days earlier. Kuptsov was named as the new First Secretary of the party. In the fall of 1991, Yeltsin issued three presidential decrees resulting in the disbanding of the party. On 23 August 1991, he issued a decree titled "On Suspending the Activities of the Communist Party of the RSFSR". On 25 August 1991, Yeltsin issued a Decree No. 90 declared that the activities of the party were suspended and that all
531-610: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Communist Party of the Russian Federation The Communist Party of the Russian Federation ( CPRF ; Russian: Коммунистическая партия Российской Федерации; КПРФ , romanized : Kommunisticheskaya partiya Rossiyskoy Federatsii; KPRF ) is a communist political party in Russia that officially adheres to Marxist–Leninist philosophy. It
590-541: Is considered to depend on the nostalgia for the Soviet Union , having the largest poll of voters among the elderly. In all presidential elections that have been held in the Russian Federation, the CRPF's candidate has finished second. In 2012, several opposition politicians, including Boris Nemtsov , posited that Dmitry Medvedev admitted to them that Zyuganov would actually have won the 1996 Russian presidential election if not for fraud in favor of Boris Yeltsin . According to
649-406: Is planned to reform the management of enterprises through the creation of councils at various levels. The party also plans to transform Russia into a Soviet republic . In the second stage, the role of councils and trade unions will increase even more. A gradual transition in the economy will be made to a socialist form of economic activity , but a small private equity is still retained. Finally,
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#1733094384212708-621: Is the second-largest political party in Russia after United Russia . The youth organisation of the party is the Leninist Young Communist League . The CPRF can trace its origin to the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which was established in March 1898. The party split in 1903 into a Menshevik (minority) and Bolshevik (majority) faction; the latter, led by Vladimir Lenin , is the direct ancestor of
767-460: The 2011 legislative election , but he also expressed his opposition to the organisers of the mass demonstrations of December 2011 , which he viewed as orchestrated by ultra-liberals exploiting unrest. The party played only a minor role as a catalyst in the protests. Party rallies on 18 December 2011 in protest of election irregularities in Moscow and Saint Petersburg were attended by only a few thousand, mostly elderly, party supporters. In 2014,
826-769: The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and is the party that seized power in the October Revolution of 1917. After the CPSU was banned in 1991 by Russian President Boris Yeltsin in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt , the CPRF was founded at the Second Extraordinary Congress of Russian Communists on 14 February 1993 as the successor organisation of the Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (CPRSFSR). It
885-593: The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), including Roy Medvedev 's Socialist Party of the Working People (of left-socialist orientation), Alexei Prigarin's Union of Communists; and much of the membership of the Stalinist Russian Communist Workers Party (although party leader Viktor Anpilov rejected the new party). The CPRF quickly became the largest party in Russia, with 500,000 members soon after its founding, more than double all
944-511: The Russian All-People's Union , led by Sergey Baburin . Zyuganov was its chairman. It went on to support Zyuganov in the 2000 presidential election . The NPSR was meant to form the basis of a two-party system, with the NPSR opposing the ruling " party of power ". Yeltsin appointed a Yuri Maslyukov to his Cabinet, improve his testy relations with CPRF-dominated legislature. The party suffered
1003-586: The Russian Orthodox Church . Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ( CP RSFSR ; Russian : Коммунистическая партия Российской Советской Федеративной Социалистической Республики; КП РСФСР ; Kommunisticheskaya partiya Rossiyskoy Sovetskoy Federativnoy Sotsialisticheskoy Respubliki , KP RSFSR ),
1062-569: The CPRF considers it necessary to reform the country in three phases. In the first phase, it is needed to achieve workers' power through representation by a coalition led by the CPRF. Achieving this goal will help eliminate the devastation from the standpoint of the party, the consequences conducted in the past decade of reforms, in particular by the nationalisation of property privatised in the 1990s. However, in this case small producers will remain and moreover will be organised to protect them from robbery by "big business, bureaucrats, and mafia groups". It
1121-412: The CPRF, in 2006 the party received ₽127,453,237 rubles (3,998,835 US$ ): In 2006, the party spent 116,823,489 rubles (3,665,328 US$ ): On 19 October 2008, the leader of the party Gennady Zyuganov appealed to the citizens of Russia to financially support the party to implement its policy goals. The CPRF is strong in large cities and major industrial and scientific centers (" naukograds ") as well as in
1180-470: The CPSU, with the party being led by a Central Committee with a commitment to democratic centralism . It has regional offices in 81 federal subjects. Each regional office is controlled by the local (oblast, city, etc.) committee, headed by the First Secretary. The headquarters of the party is in Moscow . The Leninist Komsomol of the Russian Federation is the youth organisation of the party. In 1993,
1239-601: The Communist Party declared that the party is guided by Marxism–Leninism , based on the experience and achievements of domestic and world science and culture. According to the party, there comes a "confrontation between the New World Order and the Russian people with its thousand-year history, and with its qualities", "communality and great power, deep faith, undying altruism and decisive rejection of lures mercantile bourgeois liberal-democratic paradise". According to its program,
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#17330943842121298-464: The Communist Party of the RSFSR. The founding congress of the Communist Party of the RSFSR reconvened at its second session from 4 September to 6 September 1990. The second session elected 272 Central Committee members and 96 Central Control Commission members for the party. By then, the political struggle had sharpened; Polozkov called on the communists in the RSFSR to oppose the restoration of capitalism by Yeltsin's government. The Communist Party of
1357-522: The Games with a Soviet Victory Banner . In 2021, the party's headquarters were raided by Russian authorities and a party official was barred from entering his office in the State Duma after it refused to accept the results of an online parliamentary election vote and attempting to file a lawsuit against the results. Following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine , the CPRF published a statement in support of
1416-591: The RSFSR Supreme Soviet attacked him for not attacking Gorbachev, whilst the communists in Kaliningrad criticized him for his opposition against Yeltsin. The launching of the Communist Party of the RSFSR caused organizational problems for the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, as membership fees from the RSFSR were now supposed to pass through the republican party organization. Some lower-level party organization did however continue to pay their dues directly to
1475-425: The RSFSR had, then, around 40% of the seats in the newly formed Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR. The new party organization was divided into reformist, hardline and nationalistic sectors. Polozkov played an important role as defining the role of the party as force of the anti- Perestroika opposition. However, his style of leadership was passive and he came under attack from all corners inside the party. The deputies in
1534-593: The Russian SFSR had been the sole Soviet republic without a republican-level Communist Party of its own. In fact, in 1947 the NKVD had run an investigation in the so-called Leningrad case against party functionaries accused of wanting to set up a republican Communist Party in the RSFSR. In 1989 a sector of the Communist Party (opposed to the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev ) launched a campaign for an autonomous Russian republican-level Communist Party. In June 1989 an article
1593-469: The Soviet era. In 2002, it was described as left-wing nationalist . The CPRF's current programme was adapted in 2008, where the CPRF declared that it is the only political organisation that consistently upholds the rights of the workers and national interests. According to the programme, the strategic goal of the party is to build in Russia a "renewed socialism, Socialism of the 21st century ". The program of
1652-629: The United States and NATO of deploying European fascist sympathizers and Middle Eastern terrorists to Ukraine to fight the Russian army. Two members out of 57 of CPRF's Duma caucus, Vyacheslav Markhaev and Mikhail Matveev , have expressed opposition to the war, although they support the "protection of the people of Donbass". A few younger members of the CPRF spoke publicly against the war in Ukraine, although their criticisms only refer to Russia's military campaign outside of Donbass, while they fully support
1711-523: The all-Union party, essentially as acts of defiance against the hardliners in control of the Communist Party of the RSFSR. The party became a member of the Coordinating Council of Patriotic Forces, which campaigned for a unified Soviet Union in the March 1991 referendum . On 6 August 1991, Polozkov was removed from his position as leader of the Communist Party of the RSFSR, after having called Gorbachev
1770-556: The ban on the "promotion of non-traditional sexual relations to minors", commonly known as the Russian gay propaganda law . During the Russian invasion of Ukraine , the party has taken a pro-war stance. The party leader, Gennady Zyuganov , called in the Duma for a general mobilization. Since its founding the CPRF has had several distinct internal factions: The CPRF is legally registered in Russia. In organisational terms, it largely mirrors
1829-526: The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, he became active in the Russian "national-patriotic" movement, being the chairman of the National Salvation Front (some authors call him a nationalist ). Following the CPRF's success in the 1995 legislative election , it emerged as the primary opposition to incumbent President Boris Yeltsin for the 1996 presidential election , whose approval rating
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1888-562: The congress. There were three key contenders for the post of First Secretary, Valentin Kuptsov, Ivan Polozkov and Oleg Lobov (Second Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia ). Kuptsov, the candidate supported by Gorbachev and the all-Union party leadership, suffered a heavy defeat. He received a mere 343 votes in favour whilst 2,278 delegates voted against him. Polozkov obtained 1,017 votes in favour and 1,604 against him, whilst Lobov got 848 votes in favour and 1,773 votes against him. A run-off
1947-407: The dissolution of the governing structures of the CPSU and the governing structures of its republican organization - the Communist Party of the RSFSR. On 14 February 1993, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation was formed at a Second Extraordinary Congress, declaring itself as the successor to the Communist Party of the RSFSR. The reconstituted party was led by Gennady Zyuganov , formerly
2006-472: The first meeting of the 6th convocation took place on 19 September. In February 2022, Nikolai Bondarenko was impeached from the Saratov Oblast Duma by a vote from other deputies on the grounds of improperly declaring donations to his YouTube channel. On April 4, 2022, the powers of the deputy from A Just Russia Zinaida Samsonova were terminated. This article about government in Russia
2065-412: The globe. Pravda is the newspaper of the Communist Party; it has 81 regional editions. Left-wing nationalist newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya has also friendly ties with the Communist Party, but is not officially affiliated with it. Ultra-nationalist newspaper Zavtra used to support the Communist Party, but in 2005 it switched its support to Rodina . According to the financial report of
2124-422: The growth of small and medium enterprises in the private/non-state sector. Former parties Former parties Former parties The CPRF was founded on 14 February 1993 at the Second Extraordinary Congress of Russian Communists, where it declared itself to be the successor of the Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (CPRSFSR). It formed through the merger of successor groups to
2183-665: The gubernatorial election in Irkutsk Oblast . In the 2018 gubernatorial elections , Communist Party candidates Andrey Klychkov and Valentin Konovalov won the gubernatorial elections in the Oryol Oblast and Khakassia , respectively. In addition, in the election in Primorsky Krai , the party's candidate Andrey Ishchenko could pass in the second round of election in which lost, by official results. The result of those elections
2242-462: The invasion and accused NATO of planning "to enslave Ukraine" and thus creating "critical threats to the security of Russia". It called for the "demilitarization and denazification" of Ukraine. The party framed the conflict as that between the Ukrainian Banderites and fascists, who have been perpetrating genocide against Russian speakers, and liberating Russian forces. The CPRF also accused
2301-406: The largest. Bit by bit, however, all other Communist organisations were forced out of political life. This occurred not because the organisations in question were weak, but because it was the CPRF that had received the Kremlin's official approval as the sole recognised opposition". Andrei Brezhnev, grandson of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev , has criticised the CPRF's Zyuganov's rapprochement with
2360-601: The narrative that Ukraine is governed by "neo-Nazis". As a result of the party's actions of endorsing the invasion of Ukraine, 55 of the 57 CPRF lawmakers, including Zyuganov, have been sanctioned by the United States Department of Treasury , HM Treasury of the United Kingdom, Global Affairs Canada , Japan, Australia and the European Commission . In July 2022, CPRF leader Gennady Zyuganov allowed
2419-411: The new party organization. Gorbachev faced difficulties in trying to block the formation of a Russian party organization. Many Russian members of the Communist Party who were not necessarily followers of Gorbachev's hard-line opponents were supportive of the effort to form a Russian party organization. On Gorbachev's initiative a RSFSR Bureau of the Communist Party was founded towards the end of 1989, in
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2478-458: The official results, Zyuganov received 17.18% of the votes in the 2012 Russian presidential election . According to independent observers, there was large-scale fraud in favor of Vladimir Putin . Zyuganov called the election "one of thieves, and absolutely dishonest and unworthy". In February 2005, the CPRF defeated the ruling pro-Kremlin party United Russia in elections to the regional legislature of Nenets Autonomous Okrug , obtaining 27% of
2537-471: The other parties membership combined. Gennady Zyuganov , a co-founder of the party along with senior former Soviet politicians Yegor Ligachev , Anatoly Lukyanov , Andrew Konstant and others, was elected to be party leader at the Second Extraordinary Congress. Zyuganov had been a harsh critic of Alexander Yakovlev , the so-called "godfather of glasnost ", on the CPSU Central Committee . After
2596-469: The party called for Russia to formally recognise the separatist Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic , something that would happen in 2022 preceding Russia's invasion of Ukraine. After Russia was sanctioned for systematic doping in the run-up to the 2018 Winter Olympics , Gennady Zyuganov , leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, proposed sending Russian fans to
2655-686: The party founded the Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union . Since 2001, the organisation has been led by Gennady Zyuganov and it became part of the Central Committee. The party has friendly relations with the Party of the European Left , but it is not a member of it. The party also has friendly relations with the Chinese Communist Party . On 24 March 2017, the party sent
2714-428: The party to propose a merger with the left-conservative party A Just Russia — For Truth , but only if the new party adopted the communist program. The day before, the leader of the A Just Russia Sergey Mironov said that he "does not see any obstacles to the creation in Russia of a large coalition of left-wing patriotic forces". The party advocates for a socialist transformation of Russia through peaceful means within
2773-612: The popular vote. In the Moscow Duma election held on 4 December 2005, the party won 16.75% and 4 seats, the best ever result for the CPRF in Moscow. In the opinion of some observers, the absence of the Rodina party contributed to the Communists' success. On 11 March 2007, elections took place for 14 regional and local legislatures. The CPRF performed very well and increased its votes in most of
2832-455: The present conditions in the Russian Federation, the CPRF calls for the following proposals: The party is in favour of cooperation with the Russian Orthodox Church . According to the words of Zyuganov , the CPRF is a party of scientific, but not militant atheism . Propaganda of any religion is banned inside the party. The CPRF celebrates the rule of Joseph Stalin . Zyuganov and the party support social conservatism and voted in favor of
2891-547: The properties of the Communist Party of the RSFSR would become RSFSR state property. And on 6 November 1991, he issued a decree that banned the already defunct party. On November 30, 1992, the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation recognized the ban on the activities of the primary organizations of the Communist Party, formed on a territorial basis, as inconsistent with the Constitution of Russia , but upheld
2950-497: The small towns and cities around Moscow . One of the few polling stations that gave a success to the CPRF during the 2007 Russian legislative election was at Moscow State University . The CPRF is also strong in the far east of Russia , in Siberia , and the Ural . Supporters of the CPRF include those who suffered economically and politically from the collapse of the Soviet Union. The party
3009-532: The territories; it came second in Oryol Oblast (23.78%), Omsk Oblast (22.58%), Pskov Oblast (19.21%) and Samara Oblast (18.87%), Moscow Oblast (18.80%), Murmansk Oblast (17.51%) and Tomsk Oblast (13.37%). These results testify that the CPRF is the most significant opposition party in Russia. On 21 May 2007, the CPRF obtained an important success in the Volgograd 's mayoral election. Communist candidate Roman Grebennikov won election as mayor with 32.47% of
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#17330943842123068-406: The third phase is to build socialism . The First Secretary Gennady Zyuganov also expressed that they should learn from China's successful example and build Russian socialism. He also encouraged all party members to read "Selected works of Deng Xiaoping". He said during his visit to China in 2008: "Had we learned from the success of China earlier, the Soviet Union would not have dissolved". Under
3127-510: The vote and became the youngest mayor of a regional capital. In 2008, Roman Grebennikov switched his allegiance to United Russia, angering many Communists who accused him of using the CPRF as a tool to become elected. On 7 April 2011, the CPRF candidate Ilya Potapov won the mayoral election in the town of Berdsk with a landslide victory over the United Russia candidates. In 2015 gubernatorial elections, party's nominee Sergey Levchenko won
3186-465: Was a communist political party in the Russian SFSR . The Communist Party of the Russian SFSR was founded in 1990. At this point, the Communist Party of the Russian SFSR being the republican branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union , organized around 58% of the total Communist Party membership. Politically, it became a centre for communist opponents of Gorbachev's leadership . For many years,
3245-415: Was declared invalid due to a large number of violations in connection with which recall election were scheduled for December 2018, but the Communist Party decided not to nominate its candidate for the new election. In the 2018 elections to the regional parliaments, the Communist Party took first place in the voting on party lists in three regions. However, in two regions, United Russia still managed to get
3304-432: Was held between Polozkov and Lobov. Polozkov was elected with 1,396 against 1,066 for Lobov. The first session of the founding congress concluded on 23 June 1990. Polozkov was a leader of the hardline faction, hailing from Krasnodar . After having been elected, Polozkov tried to distance himself from the most hardline elements (represented by Nina Andreyeva ) and sought conciliation between Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin and
3363-482: Was in single digits. In order to oppose Yeltsin, Zyuganov organised a "popular-patriotic bloc" of nationalist organisations to support his candidacy. After the election—which Yeltsin won with 54% of the vote—on 7 August 1996 the coalition supporting Zyuganov was transformed into an official organisation, the People's Patriotic Union of Russia (NPSR), consisting of more than 30 left-wing and nationalist organisations, including
3422-457: Was published in Nash sovremennik by Galina Litvinova, arguing that the Russian nation had regressed during Soviet rule and that it was necessary to form a Central Committee for the Communist Party of the RSFSR. The Communist Party of the RSFSR emerged from an alliance between Leningrad -based apparatchiks and Russian national-patriotic tendencies. The United Workers Front was one of the key backers of
3481-510: Was the ruling party in the State Duma , the lower house of the Russian Federal Assembly from 1998 to 1999. The party's stated goal is to establish a new, modernized form of socialism in Russia through peaceful means. Immediate goals of the party include the nationalisation of natural resources , agriculture , and large industries within the framework of a mixed economy , with socialist relations of production that allow for
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