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COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION (CPRF)– One of the largest political parties in the Russian Federation. She took first place in the elections of the State Duma in the federal electoral district in the elections of 1995 and 1999 (22.3% and 24.29% of the votes, respectively); in the elections of the State Duma of the Russian Federation in 1993 she received 12.4% of the votes. In fact, it is the legal successor of the Communist Party of the RSFSR within the CPSU. Established in February 1993 after the decision of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation allowing the creation and activities of the Communist Party. Registered by the Ministry of Justice on March 24, 1993 (reg. No. 1618). Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and leader of the Communist Party faction in the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Gennady Andreevich Zyuganov, took second place in the presidential elections of the Russian Federation in 1996 and 2000.
The banner of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is red. The anthem of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is “Internationale”. The symbol of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is a symbol of the union of urban, rural, scientific and cultural workers - a hammer, a sickle and a book. The motto of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is “Russia, labor, democracy, socialism!”
The Communist Party of the RSFSR as part of the CPSU was formed in June 1990 at a conference of Russian communists, transformed into the First (Founding) Congress of the Communist Party of the RSFSR. In June-September 1990, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the RSFSR was formed, headed by the First Secretary of the Central Committee, People's Deputy of the RSFSR Ivan Kuzmich Polozkov. On August 6, 1991, I. Polozkov was replaced as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the RSFSR by Valentin Kuptsov. After trying coup d'etat in August 1991 the Communist Party of the RSFSR was banned along with the CPSU. At a meeting of the communist and workers' parties of the USSR on August 8–9, 1992, Roskomsovet was created - the Political Consultative and Coordination Council of Communists of Russia, which set as its goal the restoration of a unified Communist Party of Russia. The meeting on November 14, 1992 decided to form, on the basis of Roskomsovet, an initiative organizing committee for convening and holding the Congress of Communists of Russia, headed by V. Kuptsov. On November 30, 1992, the Constitutional Court overturned the ban on the Communist Party of the RSFSR. After this, co-chairman of the National Salvation Front (NSF) G. Zyuganov joined the Initiative Organizing Committee and became one of its leaders. On February 13–14, 1993, the Second Extraordinary Congress of Communists of Russia took place in the Klyazma boarding house in the Moscow region, at which the Communist Party of the RSFSR was restored under the name Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CP RF). The congress elected a Central Executive Committee (CEC) of 148 people (89 - representatives of territorial organizations, 44 - elected personally from the central list, 10 - from a closed list, that is, without announcing their names; another 5 seats were left for other communist parties). The organizers of the congress initially planned that the institution of co-chairs would be introduced into the party, among which V. Kuptsov would play a leading role. However, General Albert Makashov accused V. Kuptsov of Gorbachevism and demanded that G. Zyuganov be elected as the sole leader of the party, not at the plenum, but directly by the congress. Makashov did not leave the podium until V. Kuptsov promised to support G. Zyuganov’s candidacy and not nominate his own. G. Zyuganov was elected chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. At the suggestion of G. Zyuganov, 6 deputy chairmen were elected: V. Kuptsov, I. Rybkin, M. Lapshin, Viktor Zorkaltsev, Yuri Belov. The chairman and his deputies made up the Presidium of the Central Election Commission of 7 people.
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation absorbed most of the “Lenin Platform” (LP) that separated from the RKRP, led by Richard Kosolapov, a significant part Russian Party communists, the Socialist Party of Workers and the Union of Communists, although the latter formally continued to exist independently.
On March 20, 1993, the Second Plenum of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation was held, which decided to vote in the April referendum against confidence in Boris Yeltsin, against the government’s socio-economic policy, for early presidential elections, and against early parliamentary elections. At the II Plenum, V. Kuptsov was elected first deputy chairman of the CEC, the composition of the CEC presidium was expanded to 12 people: A. Shabanov (Moscow), academician Valentin Koptyug (Novosibirsk), Georgy Kostin (Voronezh), Anatoly Ionov (Ryazan) were additionally elected to the presidium ), Mikhail Surkov. CEC commissions were formed in various areas of work. The Plenum spoke in favor of postponing the 29th Congress of the CPSU, scheduled by its Organizing Committee for March 26–28. In accordance with the decision of the II Plenum, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation as a whole did not take part in the XXIX Congress of the CPSU on March 27–28, 1993 and initially did not enter the Union of Communist Parties - CPSU (UKP-CPSU) formed at it. Nevertheless, several members of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation were elected to the Council of the UPC-CPSU, and a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Oleg Shenin headed the Council of the UPC-CPSU.
In September 1993, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation condemned the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation B. Yeltsin on the dissolution of parliament, but, unlike other communist parties, did not take an active part in the events of September 21 - October 4. On October 4, 1993, the party's activities were suspended by the authorities for several days.
On October 26, 1993, the First Conference of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation nominated a federal pre-election list of candidates for deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the first convocation. In the elections of December 12, 1993, the list of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation took third place (after the LDPR and Russia's Choice), receiving 6 million 666 thousand 402 votes (12.40%) and, accordingly, 32 mandates under the proportional system, in addition, 10 more candidates nominated by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation were elected in single-member constituencies. Some representatives of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and politicians close to it were elected to the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the first convocation also on the list of the Agrarian Party of Russia (APR). 13 members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation were elected to the Federation Council of the first convocation. In January 1994, a faction of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation of 45 deputies was formed in the State Duma of the Russian Federation, G. Zyuganov was elected chairman of the faction, V. Zorkaltsev was elected deputy chairman, and O. Shenkarev (deputy from the Bryansk region) was elected coordinator.
For the post of Chairman of the State Duma, on January 13, 1994, the Communist Party faction nominated a non-party member of the faction, V. Kovalev, who withdrew his candidacy in favor of I. Rybkin (APR), who was eventually elected Chairman of the State Duma of the first convocation. In accordance with the “package” agreement in the State Duma of the first convocation, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation faction received the position of deputy chairman of the State Duma (this post was taken by V. Kovalev, and after his appointment as the Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation, G. Seleznev became the deputy chairman of the State Duma in early 1995 from the faction) , chairmen of the committees on security (V. Ilyukhin), on affairs of public associations and religious organizations (V. Zorkaltsev) and the chairman of the Credentials Commission (V. Sevastyanov).
On April 23–24, 1994, the II All-Russian Conference of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation decided to “consider itself integral part Union of Communist Parties while maintaining organizational independence, its program and statutory documents" (the plenum of the Council of the UPC - CPSU on July 9-10, 1994 accepted the Communist Party of the Russian Federation into the UPC - CPSU). Two days before the conference, the CEC Plenum was held, which introduced A. Lukyanov to the Presidium of the CEC, and A. Shabanov to the number of deputy chairmen of the CEC. M. Lapshin and I. Rybkin (who joined the Agrarian Party back in 1993) were officially removed from the Central Election Commission.
The III Congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation on January 21–22, 1995 introduced changes to the Party Charter. Instead of the Central Executive Committee, a Central Committee (Central Committee) of 139 members and 25 candidates was elected. At the first plenum of the Central Committee on January 22, 1995, without an alternative, G. Zyuganov was again elected chairman of the Central Committee, V. Kuptsov became the first deputy, A. Shabanov became the deputy, I. Melnikov, Viktor Peshkov, Sergei Potapov were the secretaries of the Central Committee, State Duma deputies Nikolai Bindyukov and G.Seleznev. The Presidium of the Central Committee included the chairman, his deputies, 3 secretaries of the Central Committee (I. Melnikov, V. Peshkov and S. Potapov), Federation Council deputy Leonid Ivanchenko, State Duma deputies A. Lukyanov, V. Zorkaltsev, A. Aparina, V. Nikitin, K. Tsiku, A. Ionov, as well as the chairman of the Leningrad organization Yu. Belov, academician V. Koptyug, head of the Amur regional committee Gennady Gamza, employee of the Ministry of Agriculture Viktor Vidmanov, G. Kostin and M. Surkov. State Duma deputy Leonid Petrovsky was elected Chairman of the Control and Audit Commission (CCRC). The Chairman of the Council of the UPC - CPSU Oleg Shenin was elected a member of the Central Committee, but refused to run for the Presidium of the Central Committee.
III took place on August 26, 1995 all-Russian conference Communist Party of the Russian Federation, at which lists of candidates from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation to the State Duma of the second convocation were formed. The federal list was headed by G. Zyuganov, A. Tuleyev (formally non-party) and S. Goryacheva. In the elections to the State Duma on December 17, 1995, the list of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation took first place, collecting 15 million 432 thousand 963 votes (22.30%). In the State Duma of the second convocation, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation received 157 mandates (99 mandates in the proportional system, 58 mandates in single-mandate electoral districts). In addition to the 157 deputies nominated by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation itself, 23 candidates were elected to the State Duma, whom the Communist Party of the Russian Federation officially supported. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation received the greatest support in the elections of December 19, 1995 in North Ossetia (51.67%), in the Oryol region (44.85%), in Dagestan (43.57%), in Adygea (41.12%), in the Tambov region (40.31%), in Karachay-Cherkessia (40.03%), in the Penza region (37.33%), in the Ulyanovsk region (37.16%), in the Amur region (34.89%), in Smolensk region(31.89%), in the Belgorod region (31.59%), in the Ryazan region (30.27%).
The faction of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in the State Duma of the second convocation on January 16, 1996 consisted of 149 deputies, the number of which was later reduced to 145. Then, by decision of the leadership of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, some of the deputies were delegated to the Agrarian Deputy Group and the “People's Power” group, which are close to the Communist Party faction, in order for them to achieve the number necessary for registration. Throughout the convocation, the State Duma had a stable left majority in the Communist Party of the Russian Federation faction, the Agrarian Group and the People's Power group. The total number of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the majority of the ADG and "People's Power" was about 220 deputies; with the participation of a number of independent deputies, the left gained up to 225-226 votes. The representative of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation G. Seleznev was elected Chairman of the State Duma of the second convocation. In addition, in accordance with the “package agreement”, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation received in the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the second convocation the positions of one of the deputy chairmen of the State Duma (S. Goryacheva was elected), chairman of the Credentials Commission (V. Sevostyanov), 9 posts of committee chairmen and one deputy chairman of the remaining 19 committees. In particular, representatives of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation headed the committees on legislation and judicial reform (A. Lukyanov), on veterans' affairs (V. Varennikov), on education and science (I. Melnikov), on women, family and youth affairs (A. Aparina) , on economic policy (Yu. Maslyukov), on security (V. Ilyukhin), on Federation affairs and regional policy (L. Ivanchenko), on affairs of public associations and religious organizations (V. Zorkaltsev), on tourism and sports (A. Sokolov). S. Reshulsky became the coordinator of the faction instead of O. Shenkarev, who was expelled from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
The All-Russian Conference of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation on February 15, 1996 supported the proposal put forward initiative group citizens candidacy of G. Zyuganov for the post of President of the Russian Federation. In February-March 1996, a Bloc of People's Patriotic Forces was formed around the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, supporting G. Zyuganov. In the first round of the presidential elections on June 16, 1996, G. Zyuganov received 24 million 211 thousand 790 votes, or 32.04% (second place, B. Yeltsin - 35.28%), in the second round on July 3, 1995 - 30 million. 113 thousand 306 votes, or 40.31% (B. Yeltsin - 53.82%).
In addition, during the gubernatorial elections of 1996–1997, a number of representatives of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation became governors of such Russian regions, such as Bryansk region (Yu. Lodkin), Voronezh region (A. Shabanov), Tula region (V. Starodubtsev), Ryazan Oblast(V. Lyubimov), Amur region (A. Belonogov), Stavropol Territory (A. Chernogorov), etc.
In August 1996, on the basis of the people's patriotic bloc, the People's Patriotic Union of Russia (NPUR) was established, with G. Zyuganov as its chairman. After the defeat in the 1996 presidential elections, while maintaining generally oppositional rhetoric, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation as a whole in 1996–1998 actually supported the government of V. Chernomyrdin: it voted for its approval as prime minister, for the budget proposed by the government, etc. After the creation of the NPSR and the approval of Chernomyrdin (with the participation of the left wing of the Duma) as Chairman of the Government, several members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and Duma deputies (including T. Avaliani, I. Zhdakaev, A. Saliy, V. Shandybin) sent a letter to party members about the threat liquidationism and the tendency to integrate the Communist Party of the Russian Federation into the bourgeois two-party system. However, since the spring of 1998 (after the appointment of S. Kiriyenko as Prime Minister), the opposition mood of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and, as a result, the majority in the State Duma of the Russian Federation has sharply increased.
At the IV Congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation on April 19–20, 1997 and the I Plenum of the new Central Committee, G. A. Zyuganov was re-elected chairman with 1 vote against. V.A. Kuptsov again became the first deputy chairman, I.I. Melnikov was elected deputy instead of A.A. Shabanov. The composition of the Presidium and Secretariat has been rotated by 1/3.
In August-September 1998, the State Duma twice in a row rejected V. Chernomyrdin’s candidacy for the post of prime minister. On September 11, 1998, the majority of faction members supported the candidacy of E. Primakov for the post of prime minister. E. Primakov’s cabinet included members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Yu. Maslyukov (First Deputy Prime Minister) and Gennady Khodyrev (Minister of Antimonopoly Policy and Entrepreneurship Support) - formally on an individual basis, but actually with the approval of the party leadership. Supported by the leadership of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, V. Gerashchenko was appointed chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.
On May 23, 1998, the V (extraordinary) congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation took place behind closed doors in Moscow, in which 192 delegates took part. A. Makashov spoke to the delegates about the “Lenin-Stalin platform in the Communist Party of the Russian Federation,” but the proposal to add a clause to the charter allowing the existence of platforms and factions within the Communist Party of the Russian Federation was not supported. On May 22, 1998, a meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation was held, at which all party members who signed the statement on the creation of the “Lenin-Stalin Platform” were asked to withdraw their signatures by June 1, 1998. On June 20, 1998, the VIII plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation was held in Moscow, which was preceded by an extended meeting of the Central Committee of the Russian Federation, where the personal affairs of the initiators of the creation of the “Lenin-Stalin platform” - A. Makashov, L. Petrovsky, R. Kosolapov and A. Kozlov - were considered. However, no measures were taken against them.
Simultaneously with the support of the government of E. Primakov, representatives of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation continued to organize the impeachment procedure against the President of the Russian Federation B. Yeltsin.
On May 15, 1999, a vote took place, during which none of the five charges against Boris Yeltsin received the required majority of 300 votes. The third charge (on the war in Chechnya) received the largest number of votes - 284 votes. The faction deputies voted unanimously on all charges. The left's support for the Primakov government, along with the reluctance to stop the impeachment procedure, was one of the factors that led to the resignation of the Primakov government in May 1999.
After the dismissal of Primakov, the Communist Party faction nevertheless actually voted in May 1999 to approve Sergei Stepashin as Prime Minister. After S. Stepashin resigned in August 1999, 32 Duma deputies from the Communist Party faction voted for the approval of the new Prime Minister V. Putin (including G. Seleznev and faction coordinator Sergei Reshulsky), 52 deputies (including A. Lukyanov and A. Makashov) - against, the rest abstained or did not vote, G. Zyuganov did not vote.
On October 30, 1998, the 11th plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation was held in Moscow, at which it was decided that the Communist Party of the Russian Federation would go to the upcoming 1999 State Duma elections independently (the concept of left-communist forces entering the elections in “three columns”), and in the presidential elections In Russia in 2000 a single candidate from the left will be nominated. By the end of July 1999, the leadership of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation came to the conclusion that the tactics of the “people’s patriotic forces” marching to the Duma in “three columns” were wrong and proposed that the parties included in the PPSR create a single left-patriotic bloc under the code name “For Victory!” At the VI Congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation on September 4, 1999, it was decided to go to the polls under its own name; the lists of candidates from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation included a significant number of non-partisans and activists of other left parties and movements, including A. Tuleev, S. Glazyev, the leader of the Agrarian Deputy groups in the Duma N. Kharitonov, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Trade Union of Agricultural Workers Alexander Davydov. The top three on the list included G. Zyuganov, G. Seleznev, and the governor of the Tula region V. Starodubtsev.
In the elections of December 19, 1999, the list of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation took first place, receiving 16 million 195 thousand 569 votes (24.29%) of voters, 67 deputies were elected according to the proportional system, and another 46 party candidates were elected in single-mandate constituencies. In the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the third convocation, with the help of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, an Agro-Industrial Deputy Group was also formed, headed by N. Kharitonov.
In the presidential elections on March 26, 2000, the candidate of the NPSR and the Communist Party of the Russian Federation G. Zyuganov took second place (29.21% against 52.94% for the victorious acting president V. Putin).
In December 2000, the VII Congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the I Plenum of the Central Committee of the new composition took place. The Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation included Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation G. Zyuganov, First Deputy Chairman of the Central Committee V. Kuptsov, Deputy Chairman of the Central Committee (for ideology) I. Melnikov, Deputy Chairman of the Central Committee (for regional politics), First Secretary of the Rostov Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation L Ivanchenko, as well as Yu. Belov, Chairman of the Board of Agroprostroybank V. Vidmanov, N. Gubenko, First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation A. Kuvaev, Secretaries of the Central Committee V. Peshkov, S. Potapov, S. Reshulsky, First Secretary of the Samara Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation V. Romanov, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation P. Romanov, First Secretary of the Udmurt Republican Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation N. Sapozhnikov, Chairman of the State Duma G. Seleznev, political observer of the newspaper " Soviet Russia» A. Frolov and the first secretary of the Chuvash Republican Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation V. Shurchanov (17 people in total). N. Bindyukov (on international issues), V. Kashin Vladimir Ivanovich (on agrarian issues), O. Kulikov (on information and analytical work), V. Peshkov (on election campaigns), S. Potapov (on organizational issues), S. Reshulsky (for relations with deputies), S. Seregin (for the labor movement and trade unions). The first secretary of the Pskov regional committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Nikitin, was elected chairman of the Central Control and Audit Commission. At the First Plenum of the Central Committee on December 3, 2000 new line-up 11 people from the previous leadership were not re-elected, including A.I. Lukyanov, Chairman of the Central Control Commission V.G. Yurchik. A.I. Lukyanov was elected chairman of the Advisory Council, V.A. Safronov - chairman of the Personnel Commission, E.B. Burchenko - manager of the affairs of the Central Committee. At the II Plenum of the Central Committee on April 13–14, 2001, T.A. Astrakhankina was elected secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Central Committee on social issues.
On January 19, 2002, the VIII (extraordinary) congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation was held in Moscow, which officially transformed the Communist Party of the Russian Federation from a socio-political organization into a political party in accordance with the new federal law About political parties. The congress elected a new composition of the Central Committee and the Communist Party Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation; in general, the composition of the party’s governing bodies underwent almost no changes.
At the beginning of the third convocation of the State Duma, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation entered into a tactical alliance with the “Unity” faction and the “People’s Deputy” group, the result of this tactical alliance was the re-election of the representative of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation G. Seleznev as chairman of the State Duma and the receipt of these parliamentary seats disproportionately in relation to their number in the deputy corps associations, the number of leadership positions in the State Duma: in addition to 9 committees and the credentials commission, the representative of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation P. Romanov became deputy chairman of the State Duma, another representative of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation G. Semigin became deputy chairman of the State Duma under the APG quota. However, the reluctance of the communists to support many of the government's legislative initiatives and negative attitude the majority of the media towards an alliance of leftists and centrists led to an increasing cooling of relations between the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and Unity. As a result, on April 3, 2002, the right and centrists united and voted for the redistribution of leadership positions in the State Duma of the third convocation: the communists were left with 3 committees out of 9, and the agro-industrial group 1 out of 2. The leadership of the State Duma apparatus was also replaced, instead of the representative of the left N. Troshkin The post was taken by the centrist A. Lotorev. Members of the faction were released from their posts - chairmen of the committees on state building (A. Lukyanov), on education and science (I. Melnikov), on industry, construction and high technology (Yu. Maslyukov), on labor and social policy(V. Saikin), on economic policy and entrepreneurship (G. Glazyev), on Federation Affairs and regional policy (L. Ivanchenko) and Chairman of the Credentials Committee V. Sevostyanov. In this situation, the plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation demanded that the three remaining chairmen of communist committees and the Chairman of the State Duma G. Seleznev leave their posts. However, after the revision of the package agreement, representatives of the faction Speaker G. Seleznev, N. Gubenko (Chairman of the Committee on Culture and Tourism) and S. Goryacheva (Chairman of the Committee on Women, Family and Youth Affairs) decided to remain in their posts contrary to the decision of the faction. As a result, the Plenum of the Central Committee on May 25, 2002 decided to expel them from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. The Duma majority decided to retain N. Gubenko and S. Goryacheva, who had become non-party members, in their posts. Thus, at present, the only representative of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation among the chairmen of committees is the chairman of the Committee on Affairs of Public and Religious Organizations V. Zorkaltsev.
In general, the Communist Party faction in the State Duma traditionally supports draft laws and regulations that protect the interests of the military-industrial complex and the agro-industrial complex, as well as bills aimed at strengthening social guarantees for the population. At the same time, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation votes for numerous bills that tighten repressive and administrative legislation.
There are three main currents in the Communist Party of the Russian Federation: national-reformist, calling itself “people’s-patriotic” (G. Zyuganov, Yu. Belov, V. Ilyukhin, A. Makashov), social-reformist, evolving towards social democracy (its informal leader was G. Seleznev, now this trend is greatly weakened, V. Kuptsov is close to it) and the orthodox-communist (R. Kosolapov, L. Petrovsky, T. Astrakhankina).
The ideology of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is based on the ideas of Marxism-Leninism, its goal is to build socialism - a society of social justice on the principles of collectivism, freedom, equality, and advocates true democracy in the form of Soviets, strengthening a federal multinational state. According to the Charter of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, “defending communist ideals, protects the interests of the working class, peasantry, intelligentsia, and all working people.”
The program of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation states that “the fundamental dispute between capitalism and socialism, under the sign of which the twentieth century passed, is not completed. Capitalism, which dominates much of today globe, represents a type of society where material and spiritual production is subject to market laws of extracting maximum profit, accumulation of capital, tending to unlimited growth. In the second half of the twentieth century, due to new sophisticated methods of colonization, predatory exploitation of the material, labor and intellectual resources of most of the planet, a group of developed capitalist countries, the so-called “golden billion” of the population, entered the stage of “consumer society”, in which consumption from a natural function the human body turns into a new “sacred duty” of the individual, on the zealous fulfillment of which his social status entirely depends... At the same time, capitalism has not lost its nature at all. The poles of the contradiction between labor and capital were derived from state borders developed countries and distributed across continents. The new structure of the capitalist world allowed it to maintain relative stability, reduce the militancy of the labor movement, and smooth out social conflicts in leading countries, turning them into interstate conflicts. However, having ensured a high level of consumption and growth rates for a small group of countries, capitalism has brought humanity to a new round of contradictions, giving rise to hitherto unknown global problems of the Earth - environmental, demographic, ethnosocial." The Communist Party of the Russian Federation believes that for Russia the most justified and consistent with its interests is the choice of optimal socialist development, during which socialism as
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation proclaims three political stages consistent peaceful achievement of their goals. At the first stage, communists organize workers’ defense of their social, economic, and political interests, and lead mass protests of workers for their rights. The party, together with its allies, is seeking the formation of a government of national salvation. He will have to eliminate the catastrophic consequences of the “reforms,” stop the decline in production, and ensure the basic socio-economic rights of workers. It is intended to return to the people and take under state control property appropriated contrary to public interests. Create conditions for commodity producers to work effectively within the framework of the law. At the second stage, after achieving relative political and economic stability, workers will be increasingly able to participate in the management of state affairs through Soviets, trade unions, workers' self-government and other life-born bodies of direct democracy. The leading role of socialist forms of economic management, which are socially, structurally, organizationally and technically most suitable for ensuring the well-being of the people, will clearly appear in the economy. The third stage, according to the ideologists of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, will mark the final formation of socialist relations on an economic basis that meets the requirements of the model of optimal socialist development. Social forms of ownership of the means of production will dominate. As the level of real socialization of labor increases, their dominance in the economy will gradually be established.
The minimum program of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation provides for priority measures to implement the strategic goals of the party, which it sees as achieving by all legal means: the adoption of amendments to the laws on the electoral system and referendum, guaranteeing full consideration of the free expression of citizens, voter control over elected representatives of government; holding early elections of the President of the Russian Federation and the creation of a government of national salvation in order to peacefully resolve the political crisis in the country; ending fratricidal interethnic conflicts, restoring friendship and cooperation of peoples; denunciation of the Belovezhskaya agreements and the gradual restoration on a voluntary basis of a single union state; ensuring the maximum possible representation of workers in government bodies, self-government at various levels, protection of rights labor collectives; preventing private ownership of land and natural resources, their purchase and sale, implementing the principle “the land belongs to the people and those who cultivate it”; adoption of laws on employment and combating unemployment, ensuring a real living wage for the population; stopping the denigration of Russian and Soviet history, memory and teachings of V.I. Lenin; ensuring the right of citizens to truthful information, access to public funds mass media all social and political forces operating within the framework of the law; national discussion and adoption by the majority of voters of the new Constitution of the Russian Federation.
After coming to power, the party undertakes to: form a government people's trust, accountable to the highest representative authorities of the country; restore Soviets and other forms of democracy; restore popular control over production and income; change the economic course, implement emergency measures government regulation in order to stop the decline in production, fight inflation, improve the standard of living of the people; return to Russian citizens guaranteed socio-economic rights to work, rest, housing, free education and medical service, secure old age; terminate international treaties and agreements that infringe on the interests and dignity of Russia; introduce a state monopoly of foreign trade on strategic goods, including raw materials, scarce foods and other consumer goods, etc.
A citizen joining the Communist Party of the Russian Federation submits a personal written application and recommendations of two members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation who have party experience of at least one year. The issue of admission to the party is decided by the general meeting of the primary branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, located on the territory of the subject of the Russian Federation in which the citizen permanently or primarily resides. In exceptional cases, the issue of admission to the party can be decided by the Bureau of the Committee of the corresponding local or regional branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Party membership is suspended for the period the member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation performs state or other duties for which the Constitution of the Russian Federation, federal constitutional law or federal law does not allow membership in political parties. The decision to suspend and renew party membership is made by the general meeting of the primary branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, in which the communist is registered, or by other bodies specified in paragraph 2.6. Charter of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation under the age of 30 can unite in youth sections, which are created at large primary branches or party committees.
Supreme governing body party is the Congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Regular congresses are convened by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation at least once every four years. The decision to convene the next Congress, approve the draft agenda of the Congress and establish the norm of representation is announced no later than three months before the Congress. An extraordinary (extraordinary) Congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation can be convened by the Central Committee on its own initiative, at the proposal of the Central Control and Audit Commission of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, or at the request of the Committees of regional branches of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, uniting at least one third of total number members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
The permanent governing body of the party is the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, whose members are elected by secret ballot by the Congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. The central bodies of the party are the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation elects from among its members for the term of office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation the Chairman of the Central Committee, the First Deputy and Deputy Chairman of the Central Committee, as well as members of the Presidium of the Central Committee and terminates their powers ahead of schedule, elects from among its members the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, convenes regular and extraordinary Congresses of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation , determines the date and place of their holding, as well as the draft agenda and the norm of representation at the Congress from regional branches; issues a warning or removes from the performance of his duties the first secretary of the Committee of a local or regional branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in cases and in the manner provided for by the Charter; dissolves the Committee of a local or regional branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in cases and in the manner provided for by the Charter. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation develops documents on the most important issues of socio-economic and political life on the basis of the Party Program and decisions of the Congresses of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, organizes the implementation of decisions of the Congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, develops proposals on issues of domestic and foreign policy of the party, determines the tactics of the party for the current period, coordinates the activities of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation faction in the State Duma, as well as the deputy factions of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in legislative (representative) government bodies of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, etc.
Plenums of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation are convened by the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation as necessary, but at least once every four months. Extraordinary Plenums of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation are convened by its Presidium on its own initiative, as well as at the request of at least one third of the members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation or at least one third of the Committees of regional branches of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation has the right, by its decision, to co-opt into its composition new members from among the candidates for membership of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation elected by the Party Congress by secret ballot to replace the retired members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
To solve political and organizational issues in the period between Plenums of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the Central Committee elects the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation for the term of its powers. The Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation includes the Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the First Deputy and Deputy Chairmen of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, as well as members of the Presidium. To organize current work, as well as verify the implementation of decisions of the central bodies of the party, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation elects a Secretariat, which is accountable to the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Direct management of the activities of the Secretariat is carried out by the Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, and during his absence, on his instructions, by one of the Deputy Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. The Secretariat includes the Secretaries of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, who supervise certain areas of the party’s activities.
The central control body of the party is the Central Control and Audit Commission of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. By decision of the permanent governing bodies of the structural divisions of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation or the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Advisory Councils may be created under these bodies from among the most experienced and trained members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Recommendations of the Advisory Councils are considered by the Committees or Bureau of Committees of the relevant structural divisions or the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation or its Presidium without fail.
Alexander Kynev
Literature:
Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Congress (7; 2000; Moscow). VII Congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation: December 2–3. 2000: (Materials and documents) / Rep. per issue Burchenko E.B. M.: Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, 2001
Faction of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in the State Duma// Deputies of the Communist Party faction reflect on the fate of Russia: Sat. interview and article/ Faction Com. party Ros. Federation. M., 2001
The political party "" (hereinafter - the Communist Party of the Russian Federation or the Communist Party of the Russian Federation) was created on a voluntary basis by citizens of the Russian Federation, united on the basis of common interests to implement its program and statutory goals.
Formed on the initiative of the communists, primary organizations The Communist Party of the RSFSR and the CPSU, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation continues the work of the RSDLP - RSDLP (b) - RCP (b) - All-Union Communist Party (b) - CPSU and the Communist Party of the RSFSR, being their ideological successor. IN AND. Lenin dated the emergence of the Communist Party and Bolshevism “as a current of political thought and as a political party” from 1903, i.e. from the II Congress of the RSDLP.
The leaders, general (first) secretaries, and chairmen of the party over the 110-year period were: V.I.Lenin(until 1924), I.V.Stalin(until 1953), N.S. Khrushchev(1953-1964), L.I.Brezhnev(1964-1982), Yu.V.Andropov(1982-1983), K.U. Chernenko(1983-1984), M.S.Gorbachev(1984-1991), as well as in the Communist Party of the RSFSR - I.K.Polozkov(1990-1991), V.A.Kuptsov(1991), G.A.Zyuganov(from February 1993 - from the moment of re-establishment of the Communist Party of the RSFSR - Communist Party of the Russian Federation until the present).
The party operated underground and semi-legally from 1903 to February 1917. Legally - from March 1917. As the ruling party RSDLP(b) - RCP(b) - All-Union Communist Party (b) - CPSU and Communist Party of the RSFSR operated from November 7 (October 25 according to the old style) 1917 to August 23, 1991. Exercised executive power as part of a coalition government from November 1917 to July 1918 (coalition with the Left Socialist Revolutionary Party), as well as from September 1998 to May 1999. (coalition government of Primakov-Maslyukov).
Based on the Decrees of President B.N. Yeltsin in 1991-1992 and after the execution of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR in 1993 activities of the Communist Party in the Russian Federation was banned (suspended).
At the end of 1992, after the decision of the Constitutional Court of the RSFSR, which declared unconstitutional the provisions of the Decrees of President B.N. Yeltsin on the dissolution of the organizational structures of primary party organizations formed on a territorial principle, the party resumed its activities.
Another one an attempt to ban the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and arrest the leaders of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and communist deputies of the State Duma was undertaken in March 1996 after the State Duma denounced the Belovezhskaya Accords on the dissolution of the USSR.
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation is the continuation party RSDLP- RSDLP(b) - RCP(b) - All-Union Communist Party (b) - CPSU and Communist Party of the RSFSR registered with the authorities of the current Russian Federation since the Second Extraordinary Congress of Communists of Russia (February 13-14, 1993) as the restored Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
Current name - Political Party " COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION».
Communist Party of the Russian Federation - party of patriots, internationalists, party of friendship of peoples, defense of Russian, Russian civilization. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation, defending communist ideals, protects the interests of the working class, peasantry, intelligentsia, and all working people. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation builds its work on the basis of the Program and Charter.
On January 1, 2016 within the structure of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation are functioning 85 regional organization, 2,350 local and 14,151 primary branches. Since the previous congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, more than 60 thousand of our like-minded people have joined the ranks of communists HThe party's strength is 162,173 people.
More than half of Russian communists are people of working age and active age. Social composition of the party: 14% - workers, 13% - office workers, about 7% - unemployed, 6.6% - farmers, 4.3% - students, 4.2% - engineering and technical workers, 4% - representatives of the creative intelligentsia , 3% - entrepreneurs, 1.2% - business managers.
The average age of members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is 55.6 years.
If you are an adult citizen of the Russian Federation, are not a member of another party, share the Program of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and recognize its Charter, are not indifferent to the fate of our Motherland and consider capitalism to be an unjust structure of society, if you want to fight for communist ideals - you can become a communist! Read more about how to join the Communist Party of the Russian Federation You can find out at relevant section. If you share the ideas of the Communist Party, are not indifferent to what is happening in Russia today and are ready to provide the Communist Party of the Russian Federation with all possible assistance, then You can become a supporter of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
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The banner of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is red.
The anthem of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is “International”.
The symbol of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is a symbol of the union of urban, rural, scientific and cultural workers - a hammer, a sickle and a book.
The motto of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is “Russia, labor, democracy, socialism!”
Political party "Communist Party of the Russian Federation"(abbreviated as Communist Party of the Russian Federation) - left opposition parliamentary Political Party Russia
Brief history of the party
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation was formed at the Second Extraordinary Congress of Communists of Russia (February 13-14, 1993) on the basis of the primary organizations of the Communist Party of the RSFSR as the All-Russian public organization The “Communist Party of the Russian Federation” is the successor to the CPSU and was officially registered in March of the same year. Later transformed into a political party. Ideological continuity with the CPSU and the Communist Party of the RSFSR is enshrined in the Charter of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the party program adopted at its XIII Congress.
The Second Congress is also called unification and restoration, since in accordance with the decision of the Constitutional Court, B. Yeltsin’s ban on primary organizations - party cells of the Communist Party of the RSFSR was lifted. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation arose as a party created on the basis of these primary organizations. In addition, the parties that emerged in 1991-1992 were also expected to unite with it. on the membership base of the CPSU and the Communist Party of the RSFSR.
During the events of October 1993, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation spoke out in support of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation, but its structures have not taken part since the events of October 3 and 4. G. Zyuganov appealed to his supporters with a request to abandon active protests in order to avoid senseless victims. As a result of these events, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation was again banned from October 4-18, 1993. On the eve of the December elections to the State Duma and the referendum on the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation wanted to be removed from the elections for criticizing the draft Constitution, but they did not do this.
According to the voting results on December 12, 1993, the list of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation took third place after the LDPR and Russia's Choice, receiving 12.40% of the votes and, taking into account single-mandate deputies, 42 mandates. At the same time, an additional part of the representatives of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and its political allies became deputies on the list of the Agrarian Party of Russia.
In the elections of December 17, 1995, the list of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation took first place, receiving 22.30% of the vote and 157 mandates (99 in the proportional system and 58 in single-mandate constituencies).
In February - March 1996, to support G.A. Zyuganov, in the elections of the President of the Russian Federation, a Bloc of People's Patriotic Forces was formed, headed by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. In this election, G.A. Zyuganov lost to B.N. Yeltsin with a slight lag (40.31% and 53.82%, respectively).
In the summer of 1998, the Duma faction of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the deputies supporting it began the procedure for the removal of Russian President B.N. Yeltsin from office. However, during the voting of deputies in 1999, none of the five charges received the required 300 votes.
In the 2000s. a period of decline in the popularity of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation begins, which is associated not only with the characteristics of the party itself, but also with the formation of a party system with one dominant party. In the State Duma elections in 2003, the Communists received only 12.8% of the votes and 51 seats. The Rodina bloc, created in September 2003, took away a significant part of the votes from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. In the next elections in 2007, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation received only 11.57% of the votes and 57 seats.
At this time there were attempts at rapprochement with the right liberal parties, which, however, did not bring any special results. In 2004, party leader G. A. Zyuganov stated that the Communist Party of the Russian Federation should be ready for a tactical alliance with the “liberals.” It was proposed to base it on the principle of “walking apart, striking together.” However, the creation of such a union was complicated by differences on issues such as the removal of Lenin’s body from the mausoleum and the rehabilitation of Stalin. By 2007, the opinion began to emerge in the Communist Party of the Russian Federation that an alliance with the “liberals” was a “compromise”.
This period also includes several splits and departures from the party. In 2002, after a conflict with the Duma faction of Unity, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation decided to vacate the occupied leadership positions in the State Duma. Speaker of the Duma G. Seleznev, chairmen of committees N. Gubenko and S. Goryacheva did not obey the decision and were expelled from the faction and party. In 2004, the head of the People's Patriotic Union of Russia, G. Semigin, was expelled from the party. The opposition to Gennady Zyuganov as the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation was led by the Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Governor of the Ivanovo Region V. Tikhonov. In June 2004, two Central Committee Plenums were held simultaneously in Moscow, and two party congresses were held in July. The congress, held by supporters of V. Tikhonov, was declared invalid, and V. Tikhonov himself and his supporters were expelled from the party. In 2008, a story occurred related to the refusal of delegates from St. Petersburg to participate in the 13th Party Congress and known as the “new Leningrad case.” As a result, the St. Petersburg City Committee was dissolved, three of its leaders were expelled from the party, and three regional organizations were liquidated. These events were widely discussed on the Internet, including on the website of the Moscow organization of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. As a result of this whole story, the first secretary of the MGO of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, D. Ulas, was reprimanded, he himself was removed from this post, and the bureau of the MGC was dissolved. Other regional leaders were also suspended. In July 2010, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation itself, district branches, and part of the old district branches were dissolved. Opponents of the dissolution of the city committee, however, did not agree with this decision and announced the falsification of the plenum of the Central Committee.
Organizational structure and party members
In 2010, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation had 152,844 party members. This is significantly less than in the 1990s. (in 1999, the party had approximately 500 thousand members, in 2006, according to party leader G.A. Zyuganov, the party numbered only 184 thousand, while 48% of party members were over 60 years old, 43% were over 30 up to 60, and only 7% are under 30 years old). Party leaders admit that the main problems of the party are the replenishment of party ranks, their rejuvenation and the preparation of a personnel reserve.
There was a reduction in the number of members of the deputy faction in the State Duma of the Russian Federation and the number officials- members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Success in gubernatorial elections in the 1990s. led to the fact that representatives and nominees of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation headed a number of subjects of the Russian Federation, and these subjects themselves formed the so-called. "red belt" (with high level support of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation). However, in the 2000s, some current governors left or were expelled from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and joined United Russia (A. Mikhailov, A. Tkachev) and currently there are no governors members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (Governor Vladimir region N. Vinogradov suspended his membership in the party in 2008).
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation had its own factions in all compositions of the State Duma of the Russian Federation. In 1998-1999, party representative Y. Maslyukov was the first deputy prime minister in the government of E. Primakov.
The governing body of the party, according to the charter, is the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF Central Committee). The Central Committee develops documents on the most important issues based on the party program and decisions of congresses. The Chairman of the Central Committee is G.A. Zyuganov, the first deputy is I.I. Melnikov.
The central bodies of the party also include the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. The Presidium is elected to resolve political and organizational issues in the period between plenums of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. To organize the current work and monitor the implementation of decisions of the central bodies of the party, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation elects a secretariat, reporting to the presidium.
The party also has a supreme supervisory body - the Central Control and Audit Commission (CCRK) of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, which monitors compliance by members and structural divisions Communist Party of the Russian Federation Charter. This body also considers appeals by members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation against certain decisions of higher authorities.
The creation of factions is prohibited in the party, and party discipline is strictly controlled.
The printed organ of the party is the newspaper Pravda. In addition, the party has an internal “Bulletin of organizational, party and personnel work”; magazine "Political Education" and more than 30 regional publications.
A friendly youth organization is the Union of Communist Youth.
Ideological and political position of the party
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation is a force in opposition to the authorities, sharply criticizes the current political course and the government of V. Putin. Despite this, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation approved a number of actions in the field of foreign policy. For example, in 2008, after the armed conflict in South Ossetia, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation approved military action and recognition South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation opposes the expansion of NATO and the deployment of American missile defense in Eastern Europe.
His strategic goal V long term calls the construction of “renewed socialism” in Russia in three stages. In the short term, he sets himself the following tasks: the coming to power of “patriotic forces”, the nationalization of mineral resources and strategic industries economy with the preservation of small and medium-sized businesses, strengthening the social orientation of state policy.
In the 2008 party program, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is declared to be the only political organization that consistently defends the rights of wage earners and national-state interests. The program of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation states that the party is guided by the Marxist-Leninist teaching and creatively develops it, based on the experience and achievements of domestic and world science and culture. However, a significant place in the program documents and works of party leaders is occupied by “the confrontation between the new world order and the Russian people” with its qualities - “conciliarity and sovereignty, deep faith, ineradicable altruism and a decisive rejection of the commercial lures of the bourgeois, liberal-democratic paradise.”
According to the Party Charter, the highest governing body of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is the Congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Regular Congresses are convened by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation at least once every four years. The decision to convene the next Congress, approve the draft agenda of the Congress and establish the norm of representation is announced no later than three months before the Congress. An extraordinary (extraordinary) Congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation can be convened by the Central Committee on its own initiative, at the proposal of the Central Control and Audit Commission of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, or at the request of the Committees of regional branches of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, uniting at least one third of the total number of members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
In case of failure of the Central Committee to convene an extraordinary (extraordinary) Congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, when such a convocation is mandatory, or the impossibility of the functioning of the Central Committee regional branches The Communist Party of the Russian Federation can form an Organizing Committee, enjoying the rights of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation to convene an extraordinary (extraordinary) Congress.
The permanent governing body of the party is the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, whose members are elected by secret ballot by the Congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, which resolves any issues of the party's activities that are not referred by this Charter to the exclusive competence of the Congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and are not regulated by decisions of the Congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation has its own flag, anthem, emblem and other symbols, registered in the manner established by the legislation of the Russian Federation. The flag of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is a red banner, the width of which is two-thirds of its length.
The anthem of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is "Internationale".
The emblem of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is a sickle, a hammer and an open book interconnected, symbolizing the proletarian solidarity of workers, peasants and intelligentsia. The base of the emblem is the abbreviation "KPRF". Around the circumference of the emblem are the words “Russia”, “labor”, “democracy”, “socialism”.
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation sees three main goals.
1. Save the Russian people from extinction;
2. Strengthen the state integrity and unity of the country;
3. Overcome economic devastation.
To solve these problems, according to the party’s ideologists, it is necessary to return the property stolen from them to the people, place strategically important sectors of the economy under state control, restore the socio-economic human rights to work, rest, affordable housing, free secondary and High education, medical care, social security, open up the creative energy, initiative and entrepreneurship of all citizens, restore traditional allied ties in the international arena, ensure favorable external conditions for free labor and independent development of Russia.
Goals of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation:
Saving the people. Elimination of brutal genocide. Ending the demographic catastrophe. Revival of an effective health care and public education system.
Returning the plundered property of the country to the people. Restoring social justice. Approval of state control over strategic sectors of the economy. Ensuring an adequate standard of living for all Russians.
Gathering lands. Re-creation of a single union state. A single fraternal family of peoples. A single geopolitical space of continental Eurasia. The highest goal was and remains to build a just society - a solid foundation for prosperity. Great Russia in the coming millennium. In this society there will be no beggars and hungry, homeless and unemployed.
The movement's strategy is based on the principles of justice, sovereignty, democracy, spirituality and patriotism.
Principles of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation:
Justice is the opportunity for everyone to realize their talents. Work for everyone. Prospects for youth. Family well-being. Respect for personal dignity and honest work. Happy childhood and prosperous old age. Everything that the criminal regime deprived us of.
Sovereignty is state power combined with paternal severity and care. Priority of national interests over clan ones. The special responsibility of the state to society and the people.
Democracy is the power of the majority of the people and for the people. The power of conscience and law is the basis of civil peace and harmony. The main condition for free creation and creativity.
Spirituality is the desire to realize the highest human ideals and folk shrines.
Patriotism is a high sacred feeling that places the general interests of the Fatherland above personal and private ones, and a readiness for self-sacrifice.
The program of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation for the economic recovery of the country proposes restructuring and cancellation of debts of enterprises, enterprises from accumulated debts, preferential lending enterprises, reducing tariffs for electricity and rail transportation, bringing them under strict state control, to reverse Special attention to the director's building. liquidate settlement accounts of small subsidiaries and other related structures for transparency of accounting, restore multi-level control over the work of enterprises, including national enterprises, introduce control over the salaries of managers, and also increase duties on imported goods that compete with domestic ones.
Tactics of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Today, the primary organizations of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation operate in all regions and cities of Russia without exception. The network of local party organizations has been almost completely restored. City and district committees of the Communist Party exist in 1979 administrative entities. Regional party organizations have been restored in all subjects of the federation, including all republics within Russia. The vertical structure of the party is reinforced by horizontal structures consisting of councils of secretaries of primary, district and city, as well as regional organizations.
During the period after the restoration of the party, its number increased to 547 thousand members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. The party has more than 20,000 primary organizations, including territorial production organizations - 7500, territorial ones at the place of residence - 14869, territorial professional organizations - 421 and mixed primary organizations - 1470.
The strategy and tactics of the party's actions were developed at congresses and conferences, and fleshed out at Plenums, meetings of the Presidium and Secretariat of the Central Committee.
The main areas of activity were the organizational development and strengthening of the party, the formation of its new image in the mass consciousness, strengthening the influence of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in various social strata and groups of the population, organizing a mass movement of workers to change the political and socio-economic course of the ruling regime, protecting the interests of working people, propaganda and mass propaganda work, creation and development of their own information base, participation in elections.
Political party program
"Communist Party of the Russian Federation"
Russia is at a tragic crossroads. The current ruling regime, through deception and violence, is trying to return the peoples of our Fatherland to barbaric, primitive capitalism. This is the path of political reaction and social regression, the path of national catastrophe, leading to the death of Russian civilization.
Already destroyed Soviet Union. The same fate threatens the Russian Federation. The country is gripped by a severe systemic crisis. Unprecedented low level The volume of industrial and agricultural production has fallen and continues to fall. Productive forces, science and culture are purposefully destroyed. The population is declining and the processes of its impoverishment are intensifying. The fires of interethnic conflicts do not go out. Russia is turning into an object of yet another redivision of the world, into a colonial raw material appendage of economically developed countries.
Property stratification and the loss by workers of most of their socio-economic rights and gains lead to rapid proletarianization of the population. Contradictions have arisen and are rapidly deepening between labor and capital, between a handful of new moneybags and the vast majority of the people. The angry protest and indignation of the oppressed merge with the pain of patriots for the desecrated honor of the State. Resistance to the ruling regime is steadily growing among all segments of the population. People's patriotic forces, forces of social and national liberation are being organized and united.
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation, faithful to the interests of working people, sees its task as unite the social-class and national liberation movements into a single mass resistance movement, give it a conscious and purposeful character. The party is fighting for the unity, integrity and independence of the country, the well-being and safety of its citizens, the physical and moral health of the people, for the socialist path of development of Russia.
Our main goals:
· democracy, meaning the constitutional power of the working majority, united through Soviets and other forms of democratic self-government of the people;
· justice, which presupposes a guaranteed right to work and its remuneration based on final results, to free education and free medical care available to everyone, comfortable housing, recreation and social security;
· patriotism, equality of nations, friendship of peoples, unity of patriotic and international principles;
· responsibility of a citizen to society and society to a citizen, unity of human rights and responsibilities;
· socialism in its updated forms and enshrined in the future constitution, corresponding to the modern level of productive forces, environmental safety, and the nature of the tasks facing humanity;
· communism as the historical future of humanity.
The activities of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation are based on the principles of voluntariness, equality, self-government, legality and transparency. The party is free to determine its internal structure, goals, forms and methods of activity, with the exception of restrictions established by federal law.
Communists believe that the historical process takes place in evolutionary and revolutionary forms. They support those that really correspond to the interests of working people. While seeking socialist transformations, they stand for peaceful methods of their implementation. The party opposes bourgeois and petty-bourgeois extremism, which poses a huge danger civil war.
In determining its program goals, strategy and tactics of struggle to achieve them, it is guided by the developing Marxist-Leninist teaching, materialist dialectics, and relies on the experience and achievements of domestic and world science and culture.
1. THE WORLD ON THE THRESHOLD OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM
In evaluation current situation The Communist Party of the Russian Federation proceeds from the conviction that the fundamental dispute between capitalism and socialism, under which the 20th century passed, has not been completed.
Capitalism, which dominates most of the globe today, is a type of society where material and spiritual production is subject to market laws of extracting maximum profit, accumulating capital, tending to unlimited growth. Everything becomes a commodity. The only measure of all things is money. This determines the special, wasteful nature of capitalism. He views production, first of all, as the general exploitation of humans and natural resources without taking into account social costs, harmful consequences for the lives of future generations and the environment. (...)
The bourgeois form of social existence has approached the limit of its capabilities. Its most ardent supporters admit that the capitalist mode of production has encountered not only its internal, but also natural, natural boundaries. The growth of production at the same pace and methods will lead to an irreversible environmental disaster and will make the Earth uninhabitable.
Entering the new millennium, humanity faced the most dramatic choice in its entire history regarding the path of further development. In our opinion, there are only two options determined by opposing social and class interests.
The first comes down to limiting or even stopping the growth of the world economy while maintaining the current structure of production, distribution and consumption. It is designed to perpetuate the division of humanity into the “golden billion” and the periphery it exploits, and to establish the global dominance of developed capitalist countries with the help of a “new world order.”
The second path involves a steady increase in the level of well-being of the entire population of the Earth with the mandatory preservation of global ecological balance based on a qualitative change in the productive forces, the method of production and consumption, and a humanistic reorientation of scientific and technological progress.
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation believes that for Russia the most justified and consistent with its interests is the choice of optimal socialist development, during which socialism as a doctrine, a mass movement and social system finds its second wind. (...)
IN In the renewed community of working people, communists find their main social base. They first turn to him with their ideas, helping workers to understand and realize their interests on a national and international scale. In the hands of this vanguard social force is the fate of not only Russia, but also the entire human civilization in the coming 21st century.
2. LESSONS OF RUSSIAN HISTORY AND WAYS TO SAVE THE FATHERLAND
Evaluating general patterns development of humanity on the threshold of the third millennium, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation proceeds from the fact that each people and each country will implement them taking into account their own characteristics and their historical experience. This fully applies to our Fatherland.
Russia has made a unique contribution to the development of humanity thanks to its originality public consciousness And government system, the selfless work and military exploits of its peoples, the spiritual passion of its great writers, musicians and artists, scientists and engineers. The asceticism of several generations of Russian revolutionaries.
Russian history fully confirms the view on the role of revolutions as the locomotives of history. (...)
The imposition of capitalism, along with the exploitation of man by man, gave rise to a deep class split in society. At one pole – formed ruling regime class of "strategic owners". Its basis is banking-speculative capital, economically closely connected with the West. Raw materials export capital also has the same comprador character. At the same time, national capital, oriented towards the revival of the domestic economy, is in a stunted, uncompetitive state. At the other pole there is a huge mass of working people, crushed by impoverishment, the threat of unemployment, fear of uncertainty in tomorrow. The proletarianization of the majority of compatriots is accompanied by social stratification of the lower classes.
However, the forces of socialism are not broken. Russia can and must emerge from the crisis. Historical experience shows that success in this matter accompanied our Fatherland only in those cases when the working people, the entire people, correctly realized their fundamental national-state interests. We have to reach this goal in our own Russian way.
To do this you need:
· lead the growing popular resistance to the violent capitalization of the country;
· remove the mafia-comprador bourgeoisie from power, establishing the power of working people and patriotic forces;
· strengthen the political independence and economic independence of the Union, restoring its traditional interests and positions in the world;
· ensure civil peace in society, resolution of disagreements and contradictions legally, based on dialogue;
· save scientific potential, the defense complex and the Armed Forces. Bring them into line with the needs of robust national security;
· declare a decisive fight against crime, guaranteeing the safety and protection of individuals and society as a whole;
· take urgent measures to overcome the economic crisis through state regulation of economic life.
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation sets the task of intensifying the national liberation struggle of the Russian people. In such a struggle, she has real and potential allies. These are political parties of the socialist, centrist and consistently democratic spectrum, progressive patriotic movements. These are trade unions, workers, peasants, women's, veterans, youth, entrepreneurial, educational, creative organizations, religious associations of all traditional faiths.
We respect their views and do not impose our own. But in dialogue and interaction with them, we do not consider it necessary to hide our conviction that the defense of the national-state interests of Russia today organically merges with the struggle against colonial enslavement and counter-revolution, for socialism and Soviet forms of democracy. We are convinced that life will confirm that we are right.
3. MINIMUM PROGRAM
After coming to power in a bloc with progressive forces, the party undertakes to:
· to form a government of people's trust, accountable to the highest representative bodies of power of the country;
· restore Soviets and other forms of democracy;
· restore popular control over production and income;
· change the economic course, implement emergency government regulation measures in order to stop the decline in production, fight inflation, and improve the standard of living of the people;
· return to Russian citizens guaranteed socio-economic rights to work, rest, housing, free education and medical care, and secure old age;
· suppress crime, tighten punitive measures against persons involved in property theft, corruption, speculation, banditry, sale natural resources, material and spiritual wealth of the country;
· conduct independent foreign policy, meeting national and state interests, strengthening international authority Russian state;
· terminate international treaties and agreements that infringe on the interests and dignity of Russia;
· develop and implement a military doctrine that ensures national security and legislatively establishing the inadmissibility of using armed forces against the people;
· introduce a state monopoly of foreign trade on strategic goods, including raw materials, scarce foodstuffs and other consumer goods;
· revive the prestige of honest work, a creative attitude to work, respect for the traditions of community and collectivism, for the Russian language and culture, for the languages and cultures of the peoples of Russia;
· stop instilling Russophobia, Westernism and Americanism, historical vandalism, the cult of profit, violence and depravity, selfishness and individualism.
4. TASKS OF ORGANIZATIONAL AND IDEAL STRENGTHENING OF THE CPRF
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation calls on compatriots to strengthen and expand the union of patriotic forces to protect the national and state interests of the country, to fight for socialism. The party will do everything to ensure that the union of workers, peasants and people's intelligentsia, all working people, defends the honor and independence of Russia and extinguishes hotbeds of civil war and interethnic conflicts.
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation is an independent political organization. It recognizes the independence of all other communist parties. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation builds its relations with them on the principles of common class interests, political and social goals, camaraderie and mutual assistance, and collectivist morality. She performs for overcoming disunity in the communist movement Russia, its unity on a single ideological, moral and political basis developed by generations of Russian and Soviet communists.