Russian Communist Workers Party
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The Russian Communist Workers' Party (in Russian
Russian language
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: Российская Коммунистическая Рабочая Партия; transcription: Rossiiskaja Kommunističeskaja Rabočaja Partija) was a communist party
Communist party
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 in Russia
Russia
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. It was established in November 1991 with the aim of resurrecting socialism
Socialism
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 and the USSR
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

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It published a newspaper called Trudovaja Rossija (Трудовая Россия; "Working People's Russia") and the journal Sovetskij Sojuz (Советский Союз; "Soviet Union").

The RKRP considered the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Communist Party of the Russian Federation
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation is a Russian political party. It is the second major political party in the Russian Federation.-History:...

 (KPRF) to be reformist, although many RKRP members went on to form the KPRF in 1993. In October 2001 it merged with the Russian Party of Communists to form the Russian Communist Workers' Party – Revolutionary Party of Communists
Russian Communist Workers' Party – Revolutionary Party of Communists
The Russian Communist Workers' Party – Revolutionary Party of Communists is a communist party in Russia. It was established in October 2001, through the unification of the Russian Communist Workers' Party and the Russian Party of Communists, with the aim of resurrecting socialism and the USSR.The...

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