Communist Party of Armenia Հայաստանի կոմունիստական կուսակցություն | |
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First Secretary | Aram G. Sargsyan (last) |
Founded | 31 December 1920 |
Dissolved | 7 September 1991 |
Split from | Union of Armenian Social Democrats |
Succeeded by | Democratic Party of Armenia |
Newspaper | Sovetakan Hayastan |
Membership (1986) | 170,500[1] |
Ideology | Communism Marxism–Leninism |
Political position | Far-left |
National affiliation | CPSU |
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The Communist Party of Armenia (Armenian: Հայաստանի կոմունիստական կուսակցություն, Russian: Коммунистическая партия Армении) was a branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union within the Armenian SSR, and as such, the sole ruling party in the Armenian SSR.