27 Facts About CPSU

The CPSU was the sole governing party of the Soviet Union until 1990 when the Congress of People's Deputies modified Article 6 of the 1977 Soviet Constitution, which had previously granted the CPSU a monopoly over the political system.

The highest body within the CPSU was the Party Congress, which convened every five years.

Origin of the CPSU was in the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party .

CPSU died on 21 January 1924, only thirteen months after the founding of the Soviet Union, of which he would become regarded as the founding father.

CPSU was succeeded in office by Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Chairman of the Council of Ministers.

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CPSU became addicted to painkillers and needed to take increasingly more potent medications to attend official meetings.

The CPSU, which had wishfully interpreted the financial crisis of the 1970s as the beginning of the end of capitalism, found its country falling far behind the West in its economic development.

CPSU had appointed several reformers to leadership positions in the KGB, many of whom later became leading officials under Gorbachev.

Gorbachev conducted a significant personnel reshuffling of the CPSU leadership, forcing old party conservatives out of office.

CPSU criticized leading party conservatives—Ligachev, Andrei Gromyko and Mikhail Solomentsev.

CPSU's demise began in March 1990, when state bodies eclipsed party elements in power.

In reaction to this, conservative elements within the CPSU launched the August 1991 coup, which overthrew Gorbachev but failed to preserve the Soviet Union.

On 29 August 1991 the activity of the CPSU was suspended throughout the country, on 6 November Yeltsin banned the activities of the party in Russia and Gorbachev resigned from the presidency on 25 December; the following day the Soviet of Republics dissolved the Soviet Union.

CPSU conceived of the system after the events of 1917 when several socialist parties "deformed" themselves and actively began supporting nationalist sentiments.

CPSU leaders used Congresses as a propaganda and control tool.

The CPSU had party organizations in 14 of the Soviet Union's 15 republics.

CPSU conceived the vanguard party as a highly knit, centralized organization that was led by intellectuals rather than by the working class itself.

The CPSU was open only to a small number of workers because the workers in Russia still had not developed class consciousness and needed to be educated to reach such a state.

CPSU viewed the dictatorship of the proletariat, rather than the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, to be the dictatorship of the majority.

CPSU believed that by his time, the only viable solution was dictatorship since the war was heading into a final conflict between the "progressive forces of socialism and the degenerate forces of capitalism".

CPSU, therefore, concluded that the form of government has nothing to do with the nature of the dictatorship of the proletariat.

CPSU still stressed that the main contradiction in international relations were those of capitalism and socialism.

CPSU concluded that the only viable threat to socialism in the Soviet Union was a military intervention.

CPSU rationalized this by saying that the state could exist in a communist society as long as the Soviet Union was encircled by capitalism.

CPSU said that because of its peaceful collapse, the fall of Soviet communism is "one of the great success stories of 20th-century politics".

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CPSU was criticized for not taking enough care in building the primary party organization and not having inner-party democracy.

The CCP criticizes the CPSU of pursuing Soviet imperialism in its foreign policies.