The history of this abbreviation has its origins.back in the nineteenth century. It all started with small circles of socialists who were persecuted within the Russian Empire. All this resulted in a powerful and well-organized mass party, which in the final received the name of the CPSU. Decoding this abbreviation is sufficient, simple and means the ideological and geographical component. But first things first.
Formation of socialism
The nineteenth century is generally very rich invarious kinds of actions against the government for political and civil rights. The Decembrists began this battle, and then numerous university circles and public organizations picked up. The ideas of socialism are actively promoted and promoted during the reign of Alexander II. The liberal democratic mood of the majority of the society was fertile ground for the development of the ideas of liberalism and social democratic views. Populism also contributed to the spread of socialist ideas in the vast expanses of Russia. The organization “Earth and Volition” purposefully engaged in the popularization of the ideas of socialism in the territory of our country. All these organizations were, if I may say so, the forerunners of a huge and influential CPSU. The word decoding sounds like the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. However, before its occurrence was still quite far away. In the eighties of the nineteenth century, Georgy Plekhanov founded the first Russian organization to take the stand of socialism and Marxism, to which later communing was equated with minor modifications.
Peripetia of the formation of socialist organizations
However, the Labor Liberation Group wasfew and did not enjoy great influence among the Russian socialists. Georgy Valentinovich strengthened his activities and met with similar groups from Kiev and Minsk, on the basis of this activity, he met with V.I. Ulyanov. Initially, the views of the two leaders of the socialist movement were the same, and by mutual efforts they did everything possible so that these groups and cells dispersed throughout all the cities and villages of the Russian Empire would form one party. What happened at the founding congress in Minsk is the very party on the basis of which the CPSU will be formed with ideologically personal changes in the future. The decipher of the party created in 1898 was significantly different from the usual CPSU, when it was formed it was called the RSDLP, which means the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party.
Ideological and organizational differences
However, this was not the only metamorphosiswhich happened with the name of the party. As mentioned above, the founding fathers of the new political institute Georgy Plekhanov and Vladimir Ulyanov later diverged very far in their views on the future of Russia, its reorganization and the methods of carrying out these transformations. This resulted in open clashes between supporters of the first and second leaders, and then affected the organization of the party. Already at the next congress (after the founding congress), the party split into Mensheviks headed by Plekhanov and Bolsheviks headed by Lenin, but the outer unity of the party was maintained until 1917. Nevertheless, ideological and methodological disagreements led to Lenin’s release from the party’s main print publication, the Iskra newspaper. The split within the party grew stronger, Plekhanov and his supporters stood in moderate Social Democratic positions, choosing reformation as the main method of transformation, and the Bolsheviks were distinguished by radical attitudes and the main method of social change was violence in the form of the proletarian revolution.
Creation of the Russian Communist Party
In April 1917, the long overdueevent. The Bolshevik faction finally disassociated itself from the RSDLP, the basis of which was represented by moderate Mensheviks and created its own RCP (b), which would form the basis of the future CPSU. Decoding this new Bolshevik organization accurately describes its ideological views and reads as follows: Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks). Clarification with the letter “B” in brackets even more emphasized the difference of the party from the classical Western European teachings of social democracy and even communism, Lenin made some changes to the concept developed by Karl Marx, adapting it to Russian realities, but it was not the final name of the party. Already after the victory in the armed uprising in October 1917, the RCP (B.) Again changed its name, wishing thereby to emphasize its universality and becoming the ruling party. From 1925, it became known as the VKP (b), and this name was already transformed in 1952 into the CPSU. The deciphering of the name of 1925 changed only a little, the word “Russian” was replaced with “All-Russian”, and everything else remained unchanged.
The irony of the people and the official abbreviation
Like any other political organization, ithad governing bodies, which also received an abbreviation. In our case, this is the Central Committee of the CPSU, the decoding sounds like the Central Committee of the Party. During the presidency of Yuri Andropov, who was previously the chief of the State Security Committee, the main body was renamed the people in jest. He was called the Cheka of the CPSU. The interpretation of this name was ironically interpreted as a KGB committee of the party. And the Chekists called the state security officers of the USSR. Thus, deciphering the word CPSU shows us the historical evolution of the name, the change of ideological concepts and the expansion of the influence of this political institution.
