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Union of Communist Parties

Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Союз коммунистических партий – Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза
Leader Gennady Zyuganov
Founder Oleg Shenin
Founded 1993
Headquarters Moscow, Russia
Youth wing MSKO Komsomol
Ideology Communism
Marxism–Leninism
Political position Far-left
Colours Red
Website
www.skp-kpss.ru

The Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Russian: Союз коммунистических партий – Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза; СКП–КПСС; UPC–CPSU) is a federation of communist parties in the post-Soviet states founded in 1993.

Gennady Zyuganov has been the organisation's chairman since 2001. He replaced Oleg Shenin, who split off a part of the UCP–CPSU as the "Communist Party of the Soviet Union".

The structure of the UCP-CPSU consists of 18 of the communist parties of the former Soviet Union:


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