List of Communist Parties

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There are, at present, a number of communist parties active in various countries across the world, and a number who used to be active. The formation of communist parties in various countries was first initiated by the formation of the communist Third International by the Russian Bolsheviks. Undoubtedly the most important of these parties were those of the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China.

Some communist parties have names such as Socialist Party, Socialist Workers Party, Workers' Party, etc. The parties on this list are mostly those that were aligned with either Moscow or Beijing during the Cold War and their offshoots. Groups originating in the Trotskyist tradition are not included in the listing.

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Afghanistan -People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
Albania - Albanian Party of Labour
Bulgaria - Bulgarian Communist Party (known from 1938 to 1948 as the Bulgarian Workers Party)
Cambodia - Communist Party of Cambodia (Khmer Rouge)
Czechoslovakia - Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, Communist Party of Slovakia
Ethiopia - Workers' Party of Ethiopia
Germany (East) - Socialist Unity Party of Germany
Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919) - Hungarian Communist Party
Hungary - Hungarian Workers Party, Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party
Poland - Polish United Workers Party
Romania - Romanian Communist Party (Romanian Workers Party until 1965)
Soviet Union - Communist Party of the Soviet Union (before 1918, Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic and Labour Party)
People's Democratic Republic of Yemen - Yemeni Socialist Party
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - League of Communists of Yugoslavia

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List of Communist Parties

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