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Communist Party of Lithuania
Lietuvos komunistų partija
Founded1940
Dissolved1991
HeadquartersVilnius
NewspaperLietuvos tiesos
IdeologyCommunism,
Marxism-Leninism
Political positionFar-left
European affiliationNone
European Parliament groupNone
ColoursRed
Former Central Committee of the Lithuanian Communist Party

The Communist Party of Lithuania (Template:Lang-lt, Template:Lang-ru) was a communist party in Lithuania, established in early October 1918. The party was banned in December 1926.[1]

History

Party membership[2]
Year Members
1930 650
1936 1,942
1940 1,741
1941 4,620
1945 3,540
1950 27,800
1955 35,500
1960 54,300
1965 86,400
1970 116,600
1975 140,200
1980 165,800

The party was working illegally until 1940. In the same year the party was merged with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks). By the time of the formation of the Lithuanian SSR, the Communist Party of Lithuania (LKP) was headed by Antanas Sniečkus. In 1940 the LKP merged into the CPSU(b). The territorial organization of the party in Lithuania was called Communist Party of Lithuania (bolshevik) (LK(b)P). In the Lithuanian territorial organization, the first secretary of the Central Committee of the party (always a Lithuanian) was de facto governor of the country. The second secretary was always a Moscow-appointed Russian. In 1952 the name of the old Lithuanian party, LKP, was retaken.

In 1989, during mass protests of the Singing Revolution against Soviet Union in Lithuania the party declared itself independent from Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In 1990 the Communist Party of Lithuania was converted into the Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania, which in turn was later merged with Social Democratic Party of Lithuania under the later's name, but with leadership dominated by ex-communists.

The remainder of the Communist Party of Lithuania ('on platform of Communist Party of the Soviet Union') existed in 1990-1991 under leadership of Mykolas Burokevičius after the "traditional" party declared its independence from its Soviet Union counterpart. The Communist Party of Lithuania was eventually banned in 1991. Although still illegal, the Communist Party of Lithuania is affiliated to the Union of Communist Parties — Communist Party of the Soviet Union (UCP-CPSU) headed by Gennady Zyuganov.

First Secretaries of the Communist Party of Lithuania

Second Secretaries of the Communist Party of Lithuania

See also

References

  1. ^ Nordost-Archiv: Joachim Tauber: Das Memelgebiet (1919-1944) in der deutschen und litauischen Historiographie nach 1945
  2. ^ Misiunas, Romuald J. (1993). The Baltic States: Years of Dependence 1940–1990 (expanded ed.). University of California Press. pp. 359–360. ISBN 0-520-08228-1. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)