Communist Party of Armenia (Soviet Union)


The Communist Party of Armenia was a branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union within Armenian SSR, and as such, the sole ruling party in Armenian SSR.

History

The Union of Armenian Social Democrats was founded in 1902. It split into a Bolshevik and Menshevik faction. The Bolshevik faction became the Communist Party of Armenia in 1920. Many of its leaders were accused of being Trotskyists or Dashnakist and executed in 1937.

Dissolution and succession

It was dissolved in 1991, and its leadership established the Democratic Party of Armenia.
The same year, the new Armenian Communist Party was established under the leadership of Sergey Badalyan, which considered itself the successor of the Soviet Communist Party of Armenia.

Leaders

The title of the leader of the party almost always was "First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia".

Publications

The party published the daily newspaper Sovetakan Hayastan and the monthly magazine Leninyan Ugiov.