Communist Party of the Russian Federation
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Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Коммунистическая Партия Российской Федерации |
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| First Secretary | Gennady Zyuganov |
| Deputy Secretary | Ivan Melnikov |
| Parliamentary Leader | Gennady Zyuganov |
| Founded | 14 February 1993 |
| Preceded by | Communist Party of the Russian SFSR |
| Headquarters | Moscow, Russia |
| Newspaper | Pravda, more than 30 regional editions |
| Youth wing | Leninist Young Communist League |
| Membership (2015) | 570,000 |
| Ideology |
Communism Marxism–Leninism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| International affiliation |
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties International Communist Seminar |
| Continental affiliation | Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| Colours | Red |
| Slogan | "Russia! Labour! People’s Power! Socialism!" "Workers of the world, unite!" |
| Anthem | "The Internationale" |
| Seats in the State Duma |
42 / 450
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| Governors |
2 / 85
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| Seats in the Regional Parliaments |
460 / 3,980
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 CPRF flag  Flag of the Soviet Union |
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The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF; Russian: Коммунистическая Партия Российской Федерации; КПРФ; Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Rossiyskoy Federatsii, KPRF) is a communist and Marxist–Leninist political party in Russia.
The party is often viewed as the immediate successor of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which was banned in 1991 by then-President Boris Yeltsin. It is the second largest political party in the Russian Federation, after United Russia. The youth organisation of the party is the Leninist Young Communist League. The party is administered by the Central Committee.
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. As of 2015[update], the party has 570,000 members.
The party's stated goal is to establish a new, modernised form of socialism in Russia. Immediate goals of the party include the nationalisation of natural resources, agriculture, and large industries within the framework of a mixed economy that allows for the growth of small and medium enterprises in the private sector.
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation 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 (CPSU). It formed through the merger of a variety of successor groups to the 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 the other parties membership combined.
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