Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union
political organization
The Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union (UCP–CPSU) is a federation of communist parties in the post-Soviet states founded in 1993.
Gennady Zyuganov has been the organisation's chairman since 2001. He replaced Oleg Shenin, who split off a part of the UCP–CPSU as the "Communist Party of the Soviet Union".
Composition of the UPC–CPSU
The structure of the UCP-CPSU consists of 18 communist parties within the former Soviet Union.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union” as political organization. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as political organization. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1314890. VIAF identifies the subject as 152445728. The Library of Congress control number is n96070291. 1 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1993 and 2001.
Institutional narratives can privilege the records that survived while minimizing voices that were never formally collected. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
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- Event chronology
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Questions for further research
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- Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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