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The Hymn of the Bolshevik Party () is a song composed by Alexander Alexandrov. Its lyrics are written by
Vasily Lebedev-Kumach Vasily Ivanovich Lebedev-Kumach () Moscow, — 20 February 1949) was a Soviet poet and lyricist. Biography Vasily was born August 5, 1898 to a shoe maker. He went on to work in the printing department of the Revolutionary Military Counci ...
. The opening bars of the song is sampled from ''
Life has Become Better "Life has become better" () is a widespread version of a phrase uttered by former Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin at the First All-Union Meeting of the Stakhanovites on November 17, 1935. The full quote from Joseph Stalin w ...
'' (), one of Alexandrov's previous pieces. From the 1930s to the 1950s, this served as the unofficial anthem of the
Bolshevik Party " Hymn of the Bolshevik Party" , headquarters = 4 Staraya Square, Moscow , general_secretary = Vladimir Lenin (first)Mikhail Gorbachev (last) , founded = , banned = , founder = Vladimir Lenin , newspaper ...
. In 2016,
Communists of Russia The Communist Party "Communists of Russia" (CPCR; russian: Коммунистическая партия «Коммунисты России»; КПКР; ''Kommunisticheskaya partiya «Kommunisty Rossii»'', ''KPKR'') or simply Communists of Russi ...
, a Russian communist party, declared that this piece is their party anthem. The same melody for the hymn is used for the
State Anthem of the Soviet Union The "State Anthem of the Soviet Union" was the national anthem of the Soviet Union and the regional anthem of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1944 to 1991, replacing "The Internationale". Its original lyrics were written b ...
and the
Russian National Anthem The "State Anthem of the Russian Federation" is the national anthem of Russia. It uses the same melody as the "State Anthem of the Soviet Union", composed by Alexander Alexandrov, and new lyrics by Sergey Mikhalkov, who had collaborated with ...
.


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See also

* Anthem of the Soviet Union *
Life has become better "Life has become better" () is a widespread version of a phrase uttered by former Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin at the First All-Union Meeting of the Stakhanovites on November 17, 1935. The full quote from Joseph Stalin w ...
*
National anthem of Russia The "State Anthem of the Russian Federation" is the national anthem of Russia. It uses the same melody as the "State Anthem of the Soviet Union", composed by Alexander Alexandrov, and new lyrics by Sergey Mikhalkov, who had collaborated with ...


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