Communist Party of Byelorussia

Communist Party of Byelorussia Камуністычная партыя Беларусі
Founded	30–31 December 1918
Dissolved	August 1991
Ideology	Communism Marxism–Leninism
Political position	Far-left
International affiliation	Comintern (until 1943) Cominform (until 1956)
Colours	Red
Slogan	Workers of the world, unite!
Anthem	The Internationale Anthem of Byelorussian SSR
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The Communist Party of Byelorussia (Russian: Коммунистическая партия Белоруссии, Belarusian: Камуністычная партыя Беларусі), known as Communist Party (bolsheviks) of Byelorussia (Russian: Коммунистическая партия (большевиков) Белоруссии) until 1952, was a communist party in Belarus 1918-1991, created following the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was created as part of the Russian Communist Party (bolsheviks) December 30–31, 1918 with 17,800 members. It was important in creating the Belorussian Soviet Republic in January 1919. From February 1919 until 1920 it functioned as a single organisation together with the Communist Party of Lithuania, known as the Communist Party (bolsheviks) of Lithuania and Belorussia.^[1][2]

First Secretaries of the Communist Party of Byelorussia

• Alexander Myasnikyan (1918–1919)
• Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas (1919)
• Vilgelm Knorinsh (9 August 1920–1923)
• Aleksandr Osatkin-Vladimirsky (1923–1924)
• Aleksandr Krinitsky (13 May 1924–22 December 1925)
• Nikolay Goloded (22 December 1925–7 May 1927)
• Vilgelm Knorinsh (7 May 1927–4 December 1928) (2nd time)
• Yan Gamarnik (4 December 1928–3 January 1930)
• Konstantin Gey (3 January 1930–18 January 1932)
• Nikolay Gikalo (18 January 1932–18 March 1937)
• Vasily Sharangovich (18 March–17 July 1937)
• Yakov Yakovlev (27 July–8 August 1937) (acting)
• Aleksei Volkov (11 August 1937–18 June 1938)
• Panteleimon Ponomarenko (18 June 1938–7 March 1947) (exiled in Russia, June 1941–1944)
• Nikolay Gusarov (7 March 1947–31 May 1950)
• Nikolay Patolichev (31 May 1950–28 July 1956)
• Kiril Mazurov (28 July 1956–30 March 1965)
• Petr Masherov (30 March 1965–4 September 1980)
• Tikhon Kiselyov (15 October 1980–11 January 1983)
• Nikolay Slyunkov (13 January 1983–6 February 1987)
• Yefrem Sokolov (6 February 1987–30 November 1990)
• Anatoly Malofeyev (30 November 1990–August 1991)

See also

• Belarusian United Left Party "A Just World"
• Communist Party of Belarus

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