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 Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF)
Russia, Labor, People's Rule, Socialism
Founded: February 13-14, 1993
Leader: Gennady Zyuganov
Membership: 580,000 members in 2,362 local and 17,500 primary organizations. According to the party's own information, more than 18,000 new members join the party annually
Media: Pravda, Sovietskaya Rossiya, Pravda Rossii, Rezonans Radio,
Address: 3 Maly Sukharevsky Pereulok, building 1
Moscow 103051
Telephone: Press office: +7 (095) 928 33 73
Organization department +7 (095) 292 03 60
Email: kprf2005@yandex.ru
Website: http://www.kprf.ru
Major Party figures:
Gennady Zyuganov , Chairman of the Central Committee, Duma deputy http://www.kprf.ru/personal/zyuganov/
Oleg Kulikov, Chief of the commission for ideological work, secretary of the information and analysis department
Viktor Peshkov, Chief of the commission for electoral campaigns
Tatyana Astrakhankina, Chief of the commission for social policy and contacts with public organizations
Andrey Anatolyevich Andreyev, press secretary
List of Party Duma Deputies
Party History
The party was established in June of 1990 and registered by Ministry of Justice of Russian Federation on March 24, 1993.
The founders of the Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic were the members of the Communist Party of Soviet Union (delegates to the CPSU's 28th Congress) who were inclined against reforms and represented a number of regional organizations of CPSU and its central governing body. They united into the Initiative movement of communists of the RSFSR. On June 19-20, 1990, they assembled at Russian party conference, which became the the Constituent congress of the Communist Party of RSFSR. The initiators included I.K. Polozkov, O.S. Shenin, G.A. Zyuganov and V.A. Kuptsov.
After the events of August 1991, the President of Russian Federation decreed that on November 6, 1991 the activity of the CP RSFSR would be stopped. The governing body was dismissed and the party's property was taken by the government. At that time the communists split into two camps: one camp started creating new Communist parties and the other was asserting the right to restore CPRF. The latter appealed to the Constitutional court of RSFSR questioning constitutionality of the president’s decree.
In October 1992 the Constitutional Court confirmed legitimacy of actions of the primary organizations of the party and their right to create a new central governing body. In November 1992, an organizing committee, which included 68 members, was formed to organize the 2nd congress of the Communist party of RSFSR (now the Communist Party of the Russian Federation). The chairman of the Organizing Committee became V.A. Kuptsov. The most active members of the Organizing Committee were V.I. Zorkaltsev, A.V. Kruchkov, I.P. Osadtchiy, S.N. Petrov, I.P. Rybkin, G.I. Skliar and B. Slavin. Several groups participated in the new congress, including old leaders of the Central Committees of CPSU and CPRFand emigrants from the Socialist party.
Party Objectives and Program
Objectives
As adopted at the party's eighth, reorganization, congress on January 19, 2002, the party's objectives are:
- people's rule, justice providing for a guaranteed right to labour and labour remuneration according to the final results of this labour;
- free education and free health care, comfortable housing, rest and recreation, social security;
- equality based on liberated labour, the elimination of exploitation of man by man and all types of social parasitism, and on the domination of public forms of ownership of the means of production;
- patriotism, equality of nations, people's friendship, and the unity of patriotic and internationalist principles;
- a citizen's responsibility to society and society's responsibility to the citizen, the unity of the individual's rights and duties;
- socialism in its renovated forms formalised in the future constitution and matching the modern level of the productive forces, ecological security and the character of tasks facing mankind, and
- communism as the historical future of mankind.
Program
- to lead the growing people's resistance to the country's forced capitalization;
- to remove the mafia-comprador bourgeoisie from power and establish the power of the working people and the patriotic forces;
- to preserve Russia's state integrity, re-create a renovated Union of the Soviet peoples, and ensure the national unity of the Russian people;
- to strengthen the Union's political independence and economic autonomy and restore its traditional interests and positions in the world;
- to ensure civil peace in society, settle the differences and contradictions by legal ways, on the basis of dialogue;
- to save the country's scientific potential, defence industry complex and Armed Forces and bring them into compliance with the national security needs;
- to declare a resolute struggle against crime and guarantee security and protection of the individual and society as a whole, and
- to take urgent measures for extracting the country out of economic crisis through state regulation of the economy.
last updated September 1,2005
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