Communist Party of Moldavia

Communist Party of Moldavia

Partidul Comunist al Moldovei
Communist Party of Moldavia Partidul Comunist al Moldovei
Founded	15 August 1940
Dissolved	23 August 1991
Preceded by	Moldavia Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine
Headquarters	Chişinău
Ideology	Communism; Marxism-Leninism; Moldovan nationalism
National affiliation	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Colours	Red
	Politics of Moldova; Political parties; Elections;

The Communist Party of Moldavia (Romanian: Partidul Comunist al Moldovei, PCM; Moldovan Cyrillic: Партидул Комунист ал Молдовей; Russian: Коммунистическая партия Молдавии) was the ruling and the sole legal political party in the Moldavian SSR, and one of the fifteen republic-level parties that formed the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. During World War II, it was the driving force of the Moldovan resistance against Axis occupation.

Perestroika period, that had seen the party increasingly pummeled, was also marked by November riots.^[1]^[2] The party leader Semion Grossu was replaced with Petru Lucinschi on November 16, 1989.^[3]

On August 23rd, the Communist Party was banned;^[4] subequently, on 27 August 1991 Moldova declared Independence and the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic came to an end. On 7 September the Parliament of Moldova lifted the ban on communist activities.

First Secretaries[]

No.	Name (Birth–Death)	Took office	Left office	Political party
First Secretary
1	Piotr Borodin (1905-1986)	15 August 1940	11 February 1942	CPM/CPSU
2	Nikita Salogor (1901-1981)	13 February 1942	5 January 1946	CPM/CPSU
3	Nicolae Coval (1904-1970)	5 January 1946	3 November 1950	CPM/CPSU
4	Leonid Brezhnev (1906-1982)	3 November 1950	16 April 1952	CPM/CPSU
5	Dimitri Gladki (1911-1959)	16 April 1952	7 February 1954	CPM/CPSU
6	Zinovie Serdiuk (1903-1982)	8 February 1954	29 May 1961	CPM/CPSU
7	Ivan Bodiul (1918-2013)	29 May 1961	30 December 1981	CPM/CPSU
8	Semion Grossu (born 1934)	30 December 1981	16 November 1989	CPM/CPSU
9	Petru Lucinschi (born 1940)	16 November 1989	4 February 1991	CPM/CPSU
10	Grigore Eremei (born 1935)	4 February 1991	August 1991	CPM/CPSU

Aftermath[]

In 1993, former PCM members founded the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova (PCRM), which became the largest party in Moldova since the 2001 elections, and the ruling party from 2001 to 2009. In 2011 a group of communists led by the executive secretary of the old Communist Party of Moldova, , came to the public attention, claiming that they are the "real communists" and they want to revive the party (PCM) formally;^[5] they also stated that the PCRM has become a pseudo-Communist and liberal-bourgeois party serving the interests of one of the county’s richest men, Oleg Voronin, son of president of Moldova from 2001 to 2009 and leader of the PCRM Vladimir Voronin. Cucer claimed then: "The PCRM's 8-year rule made the poor poorer and the rich richer".^{[citation needed]}

The Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Moldova was created in 2010 to study and analyze the 1917–1991 period of the communist regime.

References[]

^ "Ion Costaş: 7 APRILIE 2009 NE AMINTEŞTE DE 10 NOIEMBRIE 1989" (in Romanian). BasarabiaLiterară.ro. 28 February 2010. Archived from the original on 15 August 2012. Retrieved 21 March 2012.
^ "Igor Cașu, Chişinău 7 noiembrie 1989: "Jos dictatura comunistă!"" (in Romanian). Radio Free Europe. 7 November 2009. Retrieved 21 March 2012.
^ Publika TV, File din istorie: 1989 - anul anti-7noiembrie la Chişinău (in Romanian)
^ сu privire la Partidul Comunist din Moldova
^ Partidul Comunist revine pe arena politică a Moldovei. ipn.md (in Romanian)

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[1] "Ion Costaş: 7 APRILIE 2009 NE AMINTEŞTE DE 10 NOIEMBRIE 1989" (in Romanian). BasarabiaLiterară.ro. 28 February 2010. Archived from the original on 15 August 2012. Retrieved 21 March 2012.

[2] "Igor Cașu, Chişinău 7 noiembrie 1989: "Jos dictatura comunistă!"" (in Romanian). Radio Free Europe. 7 November 2009. Retrieved 21 March 2012.

[3] Publika TV, File din istorie: 1989 - anul anti-7noiembrie la Chişinău (in Romanian)

[4] сu privire la Partidul Comunist din Moldova

[5] Partidul Comunist revine pe arena politică a Moldovei. ipn.md (in Romanian)

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Communist Party of Moldavia

Contents

First Secretaries[]

Aftermath[]

See also[]

References[]