The Anthem of the Bolshevik Party () is a Russian communist song composed by Alexander Alexandrov. Its lyrics are written by

Vasily Lebedev-Kumach Vasily Ivanovich Lebedev-Kumach (); — 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 Council, movi ...

. The opening bars of the song is sampled from ''

Life Has Become Better "Life has become better, life has become happier" is a widespread version of a phrase uttered by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin at the First All-Union Conference of Stakhanovites on 17 November 1935. The full quote from Joseph Stalin was, when transla ...

'' (), one of Alexandrov's previous pieces. From the 1930s to the 1950s, this served as the unofficial anthem of the

All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU),. Abbreviated in Russian as КПСС, ''KPSS''. at some points known as the Russian Communist Party (RCP), All-Union Communist Party and Bolshevik Party, and sometimes referred to as the Soviet ...

, later ''CPSU''. In 2016, the

Communists of Russia The Communist Party "Communists of Russia" (CPCR; ; ''Kommunisticheskaya partiya «Kommunisty Rossii»'', ''KPKR'') or simply Communists of Russia (CR; ; ''Kommunisty Rossii'', ''KR'') is an Anti-revisionism, anti-revisionist Marxism–Leninism ...

party declared this piece to be their anthem. The same melody for the hymn with some minor alterations is used for the

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and the

State Anthem of the Russian Federation The "State Anthem of the Russian Federation" is the national anthem of Russia. It uses the same melody as the " State Anthem of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics", composed by Alexander Alexandrov, and new lyrics by Sergey Mikhalkov ...

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