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| | Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In theory, supreme power in the party was invested in the Party Congress, however, in practice the power structure became reversed and, particularly after the death of Lenin, supreme power became the domain of the General Secretary. | | | Through the 1920s Party Congresses were held almost every year. | | | Program of the CPSU, 27th Party Congress (1986) ( http://www.xs4all.nl/~eurodos/docu/cpsu-texts/cpsu86-0.htm) |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Communist_Party
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| | Communist party, in Russia and the Soviet Union. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 |
| | The party gained a legal monopoly in the Soviet constitution of 1977 (other parties had been banned since 1921), but otherwise the period was one of stagnation after the failure of Khrushchev& reforms. | | | While party debates in the party congresses of the 1920s were stormy and intraparty democracy was still evident, by the 16th party congress (1929) Stalin established virtual supremacy. | | | After the death of Stalin, Georgi Malenkov at first appeared to hold power, but ultimately Khrushchev emerged as the successor, holding by 1958 the highest posts in both the party and government—first secretary of the party and chairman of the council of ministers. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/co/CommunisUSSR.html
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| | Communist Party: Information From Answers.com |
| | The sensational confessions of former Communists, such as Whittaker Chambers, and increasing evidence of Communist espionage led to highly publicized investigations by Congress (especially by the House Un-American Activities Committee and the Senate Subcommittee on Government Operations), the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and federal grand juries. | | | The Supreme Court has upheld many of the provisions of the Smith and McCarran acts as they apply to the leadership of the Communist party, but several decisions of the 1960s substantially voided sanctions against the rank and file except where some active conspiracy against U.S. security is proved. | | | This was also the period of Senator Joseph McCarthy 's hysterical search for Communists in all branches of government. |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/communist-party-marxist-leninist
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| | Communist state |
| | General Secretary of the Communist Party did not necessarily hold a state office like president or prime minister to effectively control the system of government. | | | Kirkpatrick doctrine which argued that Communist states were inherently "totalitarian" while right-wing dictatorships which the United States supported were "authoritarian." | | | On other occasions, having governed as General Secretary, the party leader might assume a state office in addition. |
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http://www.1bx.com/en/Communist_state.htm
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| | Timeline Russia 1988-1995 |
| | Communists led in early returns in elections for the Duma, the lower house of Russia's parliament. | | | Yeltsin served as acting prime minister until Yegor Gaidar was appointed in Jun 1992. | | | He was then a director of an ore-processing factory and a member of the Supreme Soviet. |
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http://timelines.ws/countries/RUS_D_1988_1995.HTML
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| | Communist Party |
| | At the Party Congress in 1921 all factions such as the Workers' Opposition were banned. | | | Gradually power passed from the Politburo to the General Secretary, who controlled the appointment of party members to key jobs throughout the country. | | | Traditionally, the Party Congress elected a 27 member Central Committee every year. |
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUScp.htm
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| | WALES CPB CYMRU |
| | The all-Britain National Congress, composed of delegates from branches and national and district committees, is held every two years. | | | In each district/nation, a congress is held every two years, composed of delegates elected from the various Branches. | | | Based in the working class movement, it led the fight against anti-trade union laws. |
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http://www.welshcommunists.co.uk
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| | Communist Party of Britain - for peace and socialism |
| | RMT rail union leader Bob Crow praised the Communst Party's candidate in Pontypridd, Robert Griffiths, as 'a champion of workers' rights and an internationalist who is implacably opposed to Blair's wars' last night (Tuesday). | | | "The racist overtones of campaigning of the two major parties represents a major concern - especially in Glasgow where two BNP candidates are standing. | | | Communists launch manifesto against war, racism and privatisation |
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http://www.communist-party.org.uk
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| | Russia's Communist Party Revives |
| | "This is not a party, but a vestige of the Soviet state," Svyatoslav Kaspe, a political analyst with the independent Russian Public Policy Center, confided to Weir. | | | Yeltsin's war against the party rose out of the attempts of left-wing members of parliament to challenge his anti-Communist decrees in Constitutional Court. | | | "In the stormy trial in 1992, the Kremlin's lawyers argued that the party should be banned for leading Russia down a tragic path," Weir wrote. |
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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/8/29/172233.shtml
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| | Estonia the Soviet Era, 1940-85 |
| | With rapid political maneuvering, the regime of Soviet leader Joseph V. Stalin then forced the installation of a pro-Soviet government and called for new parliamentary elections in July. | | | In Moscow, the Supreme Soviet granted the request on August 6, 1940. | | | This appeal to international legality dating to 1940 would frustrate the attempts of Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to control Estonia and the other Baltic states in the late 1980s. |
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http://www.country-studies.com/estonia/the-soviet-era,-1940-85.html
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| | Hoover Institution Archives: Special Projects |
| | Minutes of the Supreme Soviet's Presidium and the Commission of the USSR Supreme Soviet on Appeals for Pardons, 1938-1947. | | | This guide describes the documents submitted to the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation for the trial of the Communist Party. | | | This unique collection came into being as a result of President Yeltsin's decision to outlaw the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. |
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http://www.hoover.org/hila/projectsarch.htm
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| | Library of Congress Opens Records of the Communist Party, USA |
| | A 1924 letter from the Comintern, for example, confirms that it was providing a subsidy of $1,282 to send 10 black Americans to the "Eastern University," a Comintern school in Moscow. | | | This material is thought to have been in his possession at the time of his death and was added to the CPUSA collection by Comintern archivists. | | | In this memo, the head of the American Communist party attempts to reconcile who got which subsidies and which transfers were needed to ensure that the various activities received what Moscow intended. |
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http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2001/01-007.html
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| | Soviet and American Communist Parties The Soviet Communist party evolved from the Russian |
| | But the Americans were so divided they created two parties instead. | | | Each national party was required to adhere to the Leninist principle of subordinating members and organizations unconditionally to the decisions of higher authorities. | | | Strongly influenced by the success of the Bolshevik Revolution, American socialists and radicals met in Chicago in 1919 to organize an American Communist party. |
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http://www.skepticfiles.org/books/s1comprt.htm
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| | Soviet Archives Exhibit |
| | It represents a new Russia, willing and anxious under its first democratically elected president, Boris Yeltsin, to affirm the core democratic value of open access to information. | | | This Library of Congress Soviet Archives exhibition is important for what it represents, what it contains, and what it suggests. | | | The willingness of the new Russian Archival Committee under Pikhoia to cooperate in preparing this exhibit with the Library of Congress dramatizes the break that a newly democratic Russia is attempting to make with the entire Soviet past. |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/soviet.exhibit/soviet.archive.html
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| | Long live Soviet Communist Party! |
| | This is a high quality reprint of original Soviet poster which reads: Building communism - is in the hands of the people, up to their energy and minds. | | | The programme of the CPSU - is the programme of building communism. |
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http://www.redavantgard.com/details.asp?Det=893
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