Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union)
founding and ruling political party of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1918-1991)
The Communist Party of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Комуністична Партія України, romanized: Komunistychna Partiya Ukrayiny, КПУ, KPU; Russian: Коммунистическая партия Украины, romanized: Kommunisticheskaya partiya Ukrainy) was the founding and ruling political party of the Ukrainian SSR operated as a republican branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU).
Founded as the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine (CP(b)U) in 1918 in Taganrog, then part of Ukrainian Soviet Republic, it was the sole governing party in Ukraine as part of the Soviet Union. While the anti-Bolshevik Ukrainian People's Republic had its own political parties of socialist ideologies, the Communist Party of Ukraine was created out of the party of Russian Bolsheviks in Ukraine known as the RSDRP(b) – Social-Democracy of Ukraine. The party was denied the right to have a separate party statute and was governed by the statute of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 1952, the party was renamed as the Communist Party of Ukraine.
Like all other CPSU republican branches, the CPU was committed, in accordance to the CPSU party statute, to adherence to Marxist–Leninist ideology based on the writings of Vladimir Lenin and Karl Marx, and formalized under Joseph Stalin. The party had pursued state socialism, under which all industries were nationalized and a planned economy was introduced. Prior to the adoption of central planning in 1929, Lenin had introduced a mixed economy, commonly referred to as the New Economic Policy, in the 1920s, which allowed to introduce certain capitalist elements in the Soviet economy after the disastrous experience of war communism.
On 30 August 1991, the Communist Party was outlawed in Ukraine. After the ban was lifted in 1993, the Communist Party of Ukraine was re-created in Donetsk under the leadership of Petro Symonenko.
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