Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union Союз коммунистических партий – Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза
Leader	Gennady Zyuganov
Founded	1993
Headquarters	Moscow, Russia
Ideology	Communism Marxism–Leninism
Political position	Left-wing
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 group of communist parties in the Post-Soviet states established in 1993.

Gennady Zyuganov is the organization's chairman, replacing previous chairman Oleg Shenin in 2001 (who split off a part of the UCP–CPSU as the "Communist Party of the Soviet Union")..

Members

State	Party	Election	Lower house	Upper house	Leader
Abkhazia	Communist Party of Abkhazia	2012 election	0 / 35	—	Shamba Lev
Armenia	Armenian Communist Party	2012 election	0 / 131	—	Ruben Tovmasyan
Azerbaijan	Azerbaijan Communist Party	2015 election	0 / 125	—	Rauf Gurbanov
Belarus	Communist Party of Belarus	2012 election	3 / 110	17 / 64	Tatsyana Holubeva
Estonia	Communist Party of Estonia	Banned by the authorities			Vacant
Georgia	United Communist Party of Georgia	2012 election	0 / 150	—	Nugzar Avaliani
Kazakhstan	Communist Party of Kazakhstan	Banned by the authorities			Galziz Aldamzharov
Kyrgyzstan	Party of Communists of Kyrgyzstan	2015 election	0 / 120	—	Ishak Masaliev
Latvia	Communist Party of Latvia	Banned by the authorities			Underground
Lithuania	Communist Party of Lithuania				Underground
Moldova	Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova	2014 election	21 / 101	—	Vladimir Voronin
Russia	Communist Party of the Russian Federation	2011 election	92 / 450	—	Gennady Zyuganov
South Ossetia	Communist Party of South Ossetia	2014 election	0 / 34	—	Stanislav Kochiev
Tajikistan	Communist Party of Tajikistan	2015 election	0 / 63	—	Shodi Shabdolov
Transnistria	Pridnestrovie Communist Party	2015 election	1 / 43	—	Oleg Khorzhan
Turkmenistan	Communist Party of Turkmenistan	Banned by the authorities			Serdar Rakhimov
Ukraine	Communist Party of Ukraine				Petro Symonenko
Uzbekistan	Communist Party of Uzbekistan	2014–2015 election (didn't participate)	0 / 135	0 / 100	Kakhramon Makhmudov

• Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Transnistria are partially or wholly unrecognised states.

See also

• All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (1991)
• All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (1995)
• Communist Party of the Soviet Union
• Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1992)
• Communist Party of the Soviet Union (2001)
• Essence of Time

External links

• Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union website (Russian)