Communist Party of the Soviet Union For the modern day party of
the same name, see Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1992-)
|Communist Party of the Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза
(Kommunisticheskaya partiya Sovetskava Soyuza) |Slogan||Workers
of the world, unite!| |Founded||1 January 1912| |Dissolved||29
August 1991| |Preceded by||Russian Social Democratic Labour
Party| |International affiliation||Comintern (until 1943)
Cominform (until 1956)| The Communist Party of the Soviet Union
(Russian: Коммунистическая партия Советского Союза,
Kommunisticheskaya partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza; short: КПСС, KPSS)
was the only legal, ruling political party in the Soviet Union
and one of the largest communist organizations in the world. It
lost its dominance in the wake of the failure of the 1991 August
putsch. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union emerged from the
Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party,
under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin. After the February
Revolution of 1917, the B