Stalin Bloc - For the USSR
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Political Parties
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in Russia
Russia
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running together for the 1999 elections of the state of Duma.
This coalition was composed by many small radical political parties including "Labour Russia
Labour Russia
Labour Russia is a hard-line communist movement in Russia. It was founded in 1991 as a popular movement supporting the Russian Communist Workers' Party and is led by Viktor Anpilov. Apart from the RKRP activists, the movement included activists from other radical opposition groups, e.g...
" led by Viktor Anpilov
Viktor Anpilov
Viktor Anpilov is a Russian Communist politician and trade unionist. Anpilov joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1972. He worked as a Soviet journalist in Latin America. In 1990, Anpilov was nominated as candidate for the Congress of People's Deputies and Moscow city Soviet...
, Union of Officers led by Stanislav Terekhov, "Union
Soyuz (faction)
Soyuz was a faction in the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR. The faction was critical of Perestroika and liberal reforms; it was opposed to de-centralization of the Soviet Union...
" led by G.I. Tikhonov, the Peoples Patriotic Union of Youth led by I.O. Maliarov, Union of Workers of Moscow, Bolshevik Platform CPSU, All-Union Communist Party Bolsheviks
All-Union Communist Party Bolsheviks
The All-Union Communist Party Bolsheviks is a Marxist-Leninist and...
, Russian Association of Miners Invalids, Congress of Soviet Women, All Union Society for studying the legacy of Stalin and the Vanguard of Red Youth
Vanguard of Red Youth
Vanguard of Red Youth ), is a radical Russian communist youth group. Its website describes it as an "independent youth organization, entering the all-Russian public political motion." Its "territory of action" is Russia, which it insists is still the heart and soul of "the republic of the USSR."...
.
Aside from the leaders of the above movements, the Stalin Bloc included Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution and had held the position of first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee...
's well-known grandson, Yevgeny Dzhugashvili
Yevgeny Dzhugashvili
Yevgeny Yakovlevich Dzhugashvili is a retired polkovnik of the Soviet/Russian Air Force and the son of Yakov Dzhugashvili. He has gained note as a defender of his grandfather Joseph Stalin's reputation, and in the 1999 elections of the Russian State Duma, he was one of the faces of the Stalin...
, a retired air force colonel.
The Bloc obtained 0.61% and 404.274 votes in the 1999 Duma Election.
