The following is a list of political parties in the Soviet Union:

Russia / All-Union

Communist Party of the Soviet Union "Hymn of the Bolshevik Party" , headquarters = 4 Staraya Square, Moscow , general_secretary = Vladimir Lenin (first) Mikhail Gorbachev (last) , founded = , banned = , founder = Vladimir Lenin , newspaper ...

(established in January 1912, dissolved in August 1991) **

Workers' Truth The Workers' Truth (russian: Рабочая Правда) was a Russian socialist opposition group founded in 1921. They published a newspaper with the same name, ''Workers' Truth'', which first appeared in September 1921. The Workers' Truth con ...

(1921–1923) **

Left Opposition The Left Opposition was a faction within the Russian Communist Party (b) from 1923 to 1927 headed ''de facto'' by Leon Trotsky. The Left Opposition formed as part of the power struggle within the party leadership that began with the Soviet fou ...

(1923–1927) ** Workers' Group (1923–1930) **

Right Opposition The Right Opposition (, ''Pravaya oppozitsiya'') or Right Tendency (, ''Praviy uklon'') in the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was a conditional label formulated by Joseph Stalin in fall of 1928 in regards the opposition against certain me ...

(1924–1933) ** United Opposition (1926–1927) **

Left-Right Bloc In the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union the Left-Right bloc was a failed attempt of vocal opposition to the politics of forced collectivization Joseph Stalin. Vissarion Lominadze and Sergey Syrtsov were recognized as its leader ...

(1930) ** Union of Marxist-Leninists (1932) **

Bloc of Soviet Oppositions The Bloc of Oppositions, also known as Trotsky's bloc and called by the Soviet press the Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites, was a political alliance created by oppositionists in the USSR and Leon Trotsky by the end of 1932. Trotsky defined it as a co ...

(1932–1933) **

Anti-Party Group The Anti-Party Group ( rus, Антипартийная группа, r=Antipartiynaya gruppa) was a Stalinist group within the leadership of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union that unsuccessfully attempted to depose Nikita Khrushchev as Fi ...

(1957) **

Soyuz Soyuz is a transliteration of the Cyrillic text Союз ( Russian and Ukrainian, 'Union'). It can refer to any union, such as a trade union (''profsoyuz'') or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Сою́з Сове́тских Социалис ...

(1990–1991) **

State Committee on the State of Emergency The State Committee on the State of Emergency (), abbreviated as SCSE (), was a group of eight high-level Soviet officials within the Soviet government, the Communist Party, and the KGB, who attempted a coup d'état against Mikhail Gorbachev o ...

(1991)

Underground

* True Communists (1940) *

Soviet Revolutionary Communists (Bolsheviks) Soviet Revolutionary Communists (Bolsheviks) was an early anti-revisionist movement claimed to be an underground political outfit in the Soviet Union which criticized the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev as revisionist. It upheld the legacy of Jos ...

(established in 1960s) * All-Russian Social-Christian Union for the Liberation of the People (1964–1967) * Left School (established in Winter 1972–1973, dissolved in January 1977) * Party of New Communists (established in Winter 1972–1973, dissolved in January 1977) * Neo-Communist Party of the Soviet Union (established in September 1974, dissolved in January 1985)

Legal

* Democratic Union (established in March 1988, the first openly proclaimed opposition party in the Soviet Union) * Liberal Democratic Party of the Soviet Union (established in March 1989, dissolved in April 1991) *{{ill, Socialist Party (USSR), ru, Социалистическая партия (СССР), lt=Socialist Party (established in June 1990, dissolved in January-February 1992)

Pro-independence parties in Union Republics (nationalists)

Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists ( uk, Організація українських націоналістів, Orhanizatsiya ukrayins'kykh natsionalistiv, abbreviated OUN) was a Ukrainian ultranationalist political organization esta ...

(1966–1987,

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

) * National United Party (1966–1987,

Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ''Ox ...

) **

Union for National Self-Determination Union for National Self-Determination ( hy, Ազգային ինքնորոշում միավորում; ''Azgayin ink’noroshum miavorum'') is an Armenian political party. It was founded in 1987 by Paruyr Hayrikyan, a Soviet dissident seeking indep ...

(1987)

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Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

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