All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)

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.

All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Всесоюзная коммунистическая партия (большевиков)
Abbreviation	AUCP(b)
General Secretary	Joseph Stalin
Founder	Vladimir Lenin
Founded	16 August 1917 (as the RSDLP(b))
Succeeded by	CPSU
Headquarters	4 Staraya Square, Moscow
Newspaper	Pravda
Youth wing	All-Union Leninist Young Communist League
Political orientation	Communism Marxism–Leninism Bolshevism Anti-revisionism
Political position	Far-left
Slogan	«Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь!» "Workers of the world, unite!" (English)
Anthem	The Internationale, Anthem of the Bolshevik Party

The All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was a Marxist–Leninist communist party which represented the vanguard of the peoples of the 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 1953, and would soon be put under revisionist control after 1956 and abandon Marxism–Leninism.

Further reading

• History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks), by Joseph Stalin (1939)

See also

• Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922–1956)