The Russian Communist Workers' Party (in Russian: Российская Коммунистическая Рабочая Партия; transcription: ''Rossiyskaya Kommunisticheskaya Rabochaya Partiya'' or ''RKRP'') was a communist party in

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. It was established in November 1991 with the aim of resurrecting

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and the

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. It published a newspaper called ''Trudovaya Rossiya'' (Трудовая Россия; ''Working People's Russia'') and the journal ''Sovetskiy Soyuz'' (Советский Союз; ''Soviet Union'').

History

The party was established on 23 November 1991 by members of the anti-revisionist platform of the

Communist Party of the Soviet Union 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 ...

(CPSU) and the Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (CP RSFSR), both of which were banned following the failed

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against

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. In 1992 the party joined the National Salvation Front and its members took part in the clashes against forces loyal to Russian President Boris Yeltsin during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis. In February 1993, it was one of a number of Bolshevik groups invited to a conference at which the

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(KPRF) was established. However, RKRP leader Viktor Anpilov joined with All-Union Communist Party Bolsheviks leader Nina Andreyeva in rejecting the KPRF as reformist and refused to join the new movement.Richard Sakwa (1996). ''Russian Politics and Society''. Routledge. p. 85 Despite Anpilov's stance, much of the party's membership, including the entirety of the organisation in RKRP stronghold Kemerovo, defected to the KPRF soon after its establishment. The party was one of a number of groups barred from taking part in the 1993 Duma elections because they were linked, or perceived to be linked, to the October insurgency of that same year.Sakwa. ''Russian Politics and Society''. p. 106. In October 2001, it merged with the Russian Party of Communists to form the Russian Communist Workers' Party – Revolutionary Party of Communists.

References

Anti-revisionist organizations Defunct communist parties in Russia Political parties established in 1991 1991 establishments in Russia Political parties disestablished in 2001 2001 disestablishments in Russia

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