The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Russian: Коммунистическая Партия Советского Союза, Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza; short: КПСС, KPSS) is an organization which split from the Union of Communist Parties — Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 2001 after disagreements between Oleg Shenin and Gennady Zyuganov over the creation of a united communist party of the Union of Belarus and Russia.^[1] It had been led by Shenin until his death in May 2009.^[2]

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Russian. (February 2013) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the Russian article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Russian Wikipedia article at [[:ru:Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза (2001)]]; see its history for attribution. You should also add the template {{Translated|ru|Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза (2001)}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guidelines for companies and organizations. (October 2017)

Quick Facts Leader, Founded ...

Communist Party of the Soviet Union Коммунистическая Партия Советского Союза Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza
Leader	Sergey Alexandrov
Founded	21 July 2001 (2001-07-21)
Split from	Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Headquarters	Moscow, Russia
Ideology	Communism Marxism–Leninism Anti-revisionism
Political position	Far-left
European affiliation	INITIATIVE (defunct)
International affiliation	IMCWP ICS (defunct)
Colours	Red
Party flag
Website
cpsu.by

Close

• Oleg Shenin (21 July 2001 – 28 May 2009; as Chairman)
• Vladimir Berezin (20 March–16 July 2010; as First Secretary)
• Sergey Alexandrov (acting 21 July 2010; official from 20 November 2010–present)