Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As	CPSU • Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Sovetskogo Soyuza • All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) • Vsesoyuznaya Kommunisticheskaya Partiya (Bolshevikov) • KPSS • Russian Communist Party
Date	1917 - c. 1991
Areas Of Involvement	communism
Related People	Vladimir Lenin • Joseph Stalin • Nikita Khrushchev • Leon Trotsky • Mikhail Gorbachev • Vasily A. Starodubtsev • Valery Boldin • Boris Pugo • Anatoly Lukyanov • Boris Yeltsin • Leonid Brezhnev • Robert Kocharian • Georgy Zhukov • Grigory Yevseyevich Zinovyev • Aleksey Nikolayevich Kosygin

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Did You Know?

• There are fifteen modern countries that were formerly republics of the Soviet Union: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
• The death toll of the Great Famine (1932-1933) was not revealed by the Soviet Union in the 1937 census, as Joseph Stalin denied that there was any famine at all. As many as 7.5 million Ukrainians perished in the famine, as did 2 million Kazakhs.
• The Communist Party of the Soviet Union led the world's first communist state.
• Gulags, or Soviet death camps, were the sites of 600,000 executions.

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