Hymn of the Bolshevik Party
The Hymn of the Bolshevik Party is a song composed by Alexander Alexandrov. Its lyrics are written by Vasily Lebedev-Kumach. The opening bars of the song is sampled from Life has Become Better, one of Alexandrov's previous pieces. From the 1930s to the 1950s, this served as the unofficial anthem of the Bolshevik Party. In 2016, Communists of Russia, a Russian communist party, declared that this piece is their party anthem.
The same melody for the song is used for the Soviet anthem of 1944–91 and the Post-Soviet Russia anthem since 2000.Lyrics
