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{{Hatnote|This article is about the ruling communist party of the Soviet Union during its socialist period. For its revisionist successor, see [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]].}}{{Infobox political party|name=All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)|native_name=Всесоюзная коммунистическая партия (большевиков)|logo=Pin of the Flag of CPSU.png|founded=16 August 1917 <small>(as the RSDLP(b))</small>|abbreviation=AUCP(b)|general_secretary=[[Joseph Stalin]]|founder=[[Vladimir Lenin]]|successor=[[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|CPSU]]|headquarters=4 Staraya Square, [[Moscow]]|newspaper=''[[Pravda]]''|youth_wing=[[All-Union Leninist Young Communist League]]|political_orientation=[[Communism]]<br>[[Marxism–Leninism]]<br>[[Bolshevism]]<br>[[Anti-revisionism]]|position=[[Leftism|Far-left]]|slogan=«Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь!»<br>"Workers of the world, unite!" <small>(English)</small>|anthem=[[The Internationale]],<br>[[Anthem of the Bolshevik Party]]}}
The '''All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)''' was a [[Marxism–Leninism|Marxist–Leninist]] [[communist party]] which represented the [[Vanguardism|vanguard]] of the peoples of the [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics|Soviet Union]]. It was founded in 1917 as the '''Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)''' during the time of the [[Great October Socialist Revolution]] and was led by [[Vladimir Lenin]] and later [[Joseph Stalin]]. 

The party was reorganized into the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] in 1952, and would soon be put under [[Soviet revisionism|revisionist]] control after Stalin's murder in 1953 and abandon Marxism–Leninism. 

== Further reading ==
* ''[https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1939/x01/index.htm History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks)]'', by [[Joseph Stalin]] (1939) 
== See also ==
* [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922–1956)]]
* [[Bolsheviks]]
== References ==
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=== Notes ===
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