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Communist Party of the Russian Federation Коммунистическая партия Российской Федерации | |
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| Abbreviation | CPRF (English) КПРФ (Russian) KPRF (Romanized) |
| General Secretary | Gennady Zyuganov |
| First Deputy Chairmen | Ivan Melnikov Yury Afonin |
| Deputy Chairmen | Vladimir Kashin Dmitry Novikov Leonid Kalashnikov |
| Parliamentary Leader | Gennady Zyuganov |
| Founded | 14 February 1993 |
| Preceded by | CP RSFSR |
| Headquarters | 16th building, Ol'khovskaya Ulitsa Moscow, Russia 105066 |
| Newspaper | Pravda (81 regional editions) |
| Youth wing | Komsomol |
| Membership (2024) |  160,000[1] |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Far-left[8][9][10] |
| National affiliation | National Patriotic Forces of Russia |
| Continental affiliation | UCP–CPSU |
| International affiliation | IMCWP |
| Colours | Red |
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| Seats in the State Duma | 57 / 450 |
| Seats in the Federation Council | 4 / 178 |
| Governors | 3 / 85 |
| Seats in the Regional Parliaments | 449 / 3,928 |
| Ministers | 0 / 31 |
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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.[3] It 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 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 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.[11][12] 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 the growth of small and medium enterprises in the private/non-state sector.[13]
- ^ "The Communist Party of the Russian Federation today". 3 November 2024.
- ^ Bozóki, András; Ishiyama, John T. (2002). The Communist Successor Parties of Central and Eastern Europe. M.E. Sharpe. p. 241. ISBN 978-0-7656-1389-9. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
- ^ a b c Nordsieck, Wolfram (2016). "Russia". Parties and Elections in Europe. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
- ^ Bozóki, A and Ishiyama, J (2002). The Communist Successor Parties of Central and Eastern Europe. p. 241—245.
- ^ Nugraha, Aryanta (February 2018). "Neo-Eurasianism in Russian Foreign Policy: Echoes from the Past or Compromise with the Future?". Jurnal Global & Strategis. 9 (1): 102. doi:10.20473/jgs.9.1.2015.95-110. Archived from the original on 6 July 2023 – via Global Strategis.
- ^ Smith, Graham (1999). "The Masks of Proteus: Russia, Geopolitical Shift and the New Eurasianism". Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 24 (4): 486, 487. Bibcode:1999TrIBG..24..481S. doi:10.1111/j.0020-2754.1999.t01-2-00481.x. JSTOR 623236.
- ^ a b Bozóki, A and Ishiyama, J (2002). The Communist Successor Parties of Central and Eastern Europe. p. 245.
- ^ "Qui sont les ultranationalistes russes ?". Europe 1 (in French). 4 November 2013. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
- ^ Klußmann, Uwe (18 February 2008). "Far-Left Prepares for Russia's Election: Campaigning Communists Evoke Ghost of Stalin". Der Spiegel. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
- ^ Mccauley, Martin (2014). The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union. Taylor & Francis. p. 513. ISBN 978-1-317-86782-1.
- ^ Rapoza, Kenneth (6 December 2011). "Can Russia's Communist Party Make A Comeback?". Forbes. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
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:2was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Socialism may be waning, but not for young Russians". The Washington Times. 22 November 2012. Retrieved 11 August 2013.