The party (from 1925 the All-Union Communistparty), was strongly urban.
In 1952 the party was renamed the Communistparty of the Soviet Union.
The CommunistParty of Russia, the largest and most well-financed of the new parties, won the largest bloc of seats in the 1995 parliamentary elections, and in the first round of the 1996 Russian presidential election, Communist candidate Gennady Zyuganov received almost as many votes as Yeltsin.
The CommunistParty of the United States was considered within the political mainstream during the 1930s and 1940s, but was declared illegal for a time at the advent of the Cold War.
Members of communistparties were persecuted in many countries in the early Cold War period, when anticommunist sentiment was fueled by Western governments as part of their Cold War strategy.
The doctrine of ruling communistparties was typically that all property would belong to the state as the transition to a communist society (see socialism and state capitalism), and that the state would highly regulate all commerce in the country in the meantime.
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