Neo-Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Neo-Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The Neo-Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Russian: Неокоммунистическая партия Советского Союза (НКПСС)) was a left-wing dissident political party founded in the Soviet Union in 1974. The party formed from a merger of Vasili Minorsky and Alexander Tarasov's Party of New Communists and the Left School. Tarasov would become one of the party's leading theoreticians, writing the party's programme, The Principles of Neocommunism. Tarasov was arrested by the KGB in 1975, but was not brought to trial. Instead, he was sent to a special psychiatric hospital[1]. After his release, he headed the Neo-Communist Party until its self-dissolution in January 1985[2].

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Ideology

The party's formation from a merger of diverse groups promoted ideological cross-fertilization. The Neo-Communist Party brought a fusion of Trotskyism, as well as the New Left philosophies of Herbert Marcuse, Che Guevara and Régis Debray from members of the of the New Communists, as well as the Left School's ideas of existentialism, influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus and Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

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Notes

  1. ^ Erlich, Reese (11 2001). "Soviet Dissidents. Gone with the wind of change". Chicago Tribune. 
  2. ^ Тарасов, Александр. "Возвращение на Лубянку: 1977-й". Неприкосновенный запас 2007 (2). http://magazines.russ.ru/nz/2007/2/ta16.html. 

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