Neo-Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Neo-Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Неокоммунистическая партия Советского Союза
AbbreviationNCPSU (English)
НКПСС (Russian)
LeaderNatalia Magnat
Olga Barash
FoundersAlexander Tarasov
Natalia Magnat
Vasily Minorsky
Olga Barash
Igor Dukhanov
FoundedSeptember 1974 (1974-09)
DissolvedJanuary 1985 (1985-01)
Merger ofLeft School
Party of New Communists
HeadquartersMoscow, Russian SFSR, USSR
Membership (1974)32
IdeologyEurocommunism
Atheist existentialism
Communism
Guevarism
Neo-Marxism
Anti-clericalism
Trotskyism
New Left
Political positionFar-left
Colours  Red

The Neo-Communist Party of the Soviet Union (NCPSU; Russian: Неокоммунистическая партия Советского Союза; НКПСС; Neokommunisticheskaya partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza, NKPSS) was a clandestine far-left group, which existed in the Soviet Union between September 1974 and January 1985. NCPSU is seen by modern researchers as one of the first organizations of the New Left in the USSR.[1] However, Austrian researcher Hans Azenbaum, who studied the ideology of NCPSU, tends to view this party as the one focusing on the "third way", i.e. neither capitalism, nor real socialism.[2]

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  2. ^ Asenbaum, H (2012). "Viele Dritte Wege. Alternative Demokratiekonzepte der russischen Informellenbewegung in den Perestroika-Jahren". Momentum Quarterly (in German). 1 (4).