Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine
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Communist Party of Ukraine
Коммунистическая партия Украины |
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| General Secretary | Stanislav Hurenko (last) |
| Founder | Mykola Skrypnyk |
| Founded | July 17, 1918 |
| Dissolved | August 26, 1991 |
| Preceded by | Russian Social Democratic Labour Party |
| Succeeded by |
Socialist Party of Ukraine Communist Party of Ukraine (1993) |
| Headquarters | Kiev, Ukraine |
| Newspaper |
Pravda Ukrainy (in Russian) Radyanska Ukrayina (in Ukrainian) |
| Youth wing |
Komsomol of Ukraine Young Pioneers |
| Ideology |
Communism National communism Marxism–Leninism |
| International affiliation |
Comintern (1919–43) Cominform (1947–56) |
| Colours | Red |
| Slogan | Workers of the world, unite! |
| Anthem | The Internationale |
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The Communist Party of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Комуністична Партія України Komunistychna Partiya Ukrayiny, КПУ, KPU; Russian: Коммунистическая партия Украины), known as the Communist Party (Bolshevik) of Ukraine until 1952, was the Ukrainian branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU).
The Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine was created in July 1918 in Moscow. Most of its constituent members were former members of the Russian Bolsheviks who in 1917 pronounced themselves "Social-Democracy of Ukraine" and with the help of the Antonov-Ovseyenko expeditionary forces of Petrograd and Moscow Red Guards instigated a civil war in Ukraine by routing local Red Guards. After the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk the Bolshevik faction Social-Democracy of Ukraine was forced to dissolve as all Bolsheviks were forced out of Ukraine.
On October 13, 1952 the party officially was renamed as the Communist Party of Ukraine.
On August 26, 1991 the Communist Party was outlawed in Ukraine. Different sectors reconstituted themselves in different parties. One group led by moderate members under Oleksandr Moroz formed the Socialist Party of Ukraine (SPU) out of most of the former members, a group of agrarians led by Serhiy Dovhan and Oleksandr Tkachenko formed the Peasant Party of Ukraine (SelPU), and another group, the Communist Party of Ukraine, was re-created in 1993 in Donetsk under the leadership of Petro Symonenko when the ban was lifted. The remaining members either changed political direction or created their own left-wing parties such as the Vitrenko bloc, Social-Democratic (United) party, and others.
Initial composition of the committee was elected at the 1st party Congress on July 12, 1918 and consisted of the following people: Ivan Amosov, Andrei Bubnov, Afanasiy Butsenko, Shulim Gruzman, Vladimir Zatonsky, Lavrentiy Kartvelishvili, Emmanuil Kviring, Stanislav Kosior, Isaak Kreisberg, Yuriy Lutovinov, Yuriy Pyatakov, Rafail Farbman, Pinkhus Rovner, Leonid Tarsky (Sokolovsky), Isaak Shvarts. Beside full members there also were candidate to the committee. The initial composition included Yan Hamarnik (Yakov Pudikovich), Dmitriy Lebed, Mikhail Mayorov (Meyer Biberman), Mykola Skrypnyk, Petro Slynko, Yakov Yakovlev (Epshtein). On September 9, 1918 Mayorov and Slynko replaced Kertvelishvili and Farbman as full members, while the last two lost their membership.
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