Communist Party of the Donetsk People's Republic

Communist Party of the
Donetsk People's Republic

Коммунистическая партия
Донецкой Народной Республики
Communist Party of the; Donetsk People's Republic Коммунистическая партия; Донецкой Народной Республики
Abbreviation	CPDPR (English); КПДНР (Russian)
General Secretary	Boris Litvinov
Founder	Boris Litvinov
Founded	8 October 2014
Dissolved	4 December 2022
Split from	Communist Party of Ukraine
Merged into	Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Headquarters	Donetsk, Donetsk People's Republic/Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine
Newspaper	Vperyod
Youth wing	Komsomol
Ideology	Communism; Marxism–Leninism; Left-wing nationalism; Soviet patriotism;
Political position	Far-left
National affiliation	Donetsk Republic (2014–2016)
Continental affiliation	UCP–CPSU (observer)
Colors	Red
Slogan	"Workers of the world, unite!"; (Russian: "Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь!"); "Peace! Labor! Socialism! Republic!"; (Russian: "Мир! Труд! Социализм! Республика!")
Anthem	"The Internationale"
People's Council (2022)	0 / 100
Party flag
Website
	kpdnr.su; wpered.su
	Politics of the Donetsk People's Republic; Politics of Ukraine; Political parties; Elections; ^ Russian: Интернациона́л, romanized: Internatsionál ;

The Communist Party of the Donetsk People's Republic (abbr. CPDPR; Russian: Коммунистическая партия Донецкой Народной Республики; КПДНР, romanized: Kommunisticheskaya partiya Donetskoy Narodnoy Respubliki, KPDNR) was a communist party in the disputed Donetsk People's Republic, a federal subject of Russia that is de jure part of Ukraine, led by Boris Litvinov, formerly the chairman of the People's Council of the Donetsk People's Republic.^[5] It was a faction of the Donetsk Republic organization from 2014 to 2016. Since 2022, it has been a republican branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

History

The CPDPR was founded on 8 October 2014. Boris Litvinov, who previously was the head of a regional branch of the Communist Party of Ukraine in the Kirovsky District, Donetsk,^{[failed verification]}^[6]^[7] was proclaimed chairman of the party. Litvinov headed the People's Council from July to October 2014.^[7] After his dismissal as chairman of the People's Council, rumors emerged that Litvinov had been briefly arrested, yet Litvinov himself denied them.^[7]

Litvinov stated that the CPDPR would support the candidacy of Alexander Zakharchenko, the first President of the Donetsk People's Republic, in the 2014 general election for the country's premiership.^[5] The CPDPR themselves were banned from participating in the elections because the party "made too many mistakes" in their submitted documents.^[8] According to some Russian media, the final party's lists were edited in Moscow.^[7] Selected members were allowed to be on the party list for the Donetsk Republic political organization.^[7] Three members of the CPDPR were elected to the People's Council: Boris Litvinov, Vadim Zaibert, and Nikolai Ragozin.^[7] Zaibert was later killed in action and not replaced, thus leaving only two members of the party in the People's Council.^[9]

In 2015, the Leninist Communist Youth Union (Komsomol) of the party was founded, headed by First Secretary Vadim Popkov and Second Secretary Anton Saenko.^[3]

In 2016, Litvinov and Ragozin were expelled from the People's Council due to a "loss of confidence", thus leaving the party with no representatives.^[7]

In 2022, following the annexation of the Donetsk People's Republic by the Russian Federation, the CPDNR became a republican branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.^[10]