Communist Parties
A communist party is a left-wing political party that seeks to realize the social and economic goals of communism. The term communist party was popularized by the title of The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. As a vanguard party, the communist party guides the political education and development of the working class (proletariat). As the ruling party, the communist party exercises power through the dictatorship of the proletariat. Vladimir Lenin developed the idea of the communist party as the revolutionary vanguard, when social democracy in Imperial Russia was divided into ideologically opposed factions, …
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5 May 2022 English
Notes of interest with links to documents in Cold War Eastern Europe. Links to photos, maps and compelling stories.
funeral (including leaders of many non-ruling communist parties). FCO 28/5124 19-22 Textual Reports on visits …
4 May 2022 English
State leaders in Eastern Europe, Berlin Mayors, United Kingdom Prime Ministers and Foreign Secretaries, Politicians and Statesmen, Ambassadors, Other Eastern European Figures
the Department for Relations with Foreign Communist Parties of the Central Committee; Politburo member …
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State security agencies, International Organizations, Political Organizations, Non-governing Political Parties and Organizations, Youth Organizations, and other Key Terms
Union (equivalents existed in most other communist parties usually under the name Political Committee) …
Korea University · 1 January 2017 English
In 1960–61, the outbreak of an increasingly acrimonious dispute between Nikita Khrushchev’s Soviet Union and Enver Hoxha’s Albania caught most foreign observers by surprise, all the more so because the …
Bucharest Conference of Bloc and foreign Communist Parties in June 1960.”8 To be sure, the British observers …
RU: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey · 1 January 2017 English
1968 was a momentous year. In the West, it is primarily remembered as a moment of global youth revolt.1 Events in Eastern Europe took place within the context of this …
alone.”19 19 “Letter from Warsaw Meeting of Communist Parties Criticizing Czechoslovak Reforms,” International …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
A file containing documents relating to Soviet influence in Africa. Subjects covered in the file include Soviet economic aid to Uganda; the possible establishment of diplomatic relations between Lesotho and …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
A file of correspondence and reports concerning the celebrations to mark the 1300th anniversary of the founding of the Bulgarian state. The documents cover the work of the British committee …
ideological link between their respective communist parties in which the late Georgi Dimitrov, the anniversary …
The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English
Congress (including delegations from not only Communist parties, but also socialist and social democratic …
