Russian Bolsheviks in Ukraine The party traces its beginning to committees and party's cells of the
Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) that existed at the end of the 19th century in all bigger cities and industrial centers on Ukrainian territory which was part of the
Russian Empire. into a
civil war and fought against "
social chauvinism and
revolutionary defeatism." On 28 April 1917, at the city's assembly Bolsheviks stated that those theses require further discussion and promised to publish them in their newspaper. Ivan Amosov,
Andrei Bubnov, Afanasi Butsenko, Shulim Gruzman,
Vladimir Zatonski, Lavreti Kartvelishvili,
Emmanuel Kviring,
Stanisław Kosior,
Isaak Kreisberg, Iuri Lutovinov,
Georgi Piatakov,
Rafail Farbman,
Pinkhus Rovner, Leonid Tarski, Isaak Shvarts;
Ian Gamarnik,
Dmitri Lebed, Mikhail Maiorov,
Nikolai Skrypnik, Petr Slynko,
Iakov Iakovlev. Upon creation of the party there were two points of view on the party's structure and relationship with the Russian Communist Party: one idea proposed by the Kiev faction leader
Nikolay Skripnik included relationship with the Russian Communist Party through
Comintern, while the other one proposed by the Yekaterinoslav and Donbas leader
Emmanuel Kviring included relationship with the
Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party. Most of its constituent members were former members of the Russian
Bolsheviks who in 1917 pronounced themselves "
RSDRP(b) – Social-Democracy of Ukraine" and with the help of the
Antonov-Ovseyenko expeditionary forces of Petrograd and Moscow Red Guards instigated a civil war in Ukraine by routing local Red Guards. Some Ukrainian politicians from left faction of the
Ukrainian Social Democratic Labour Party (also known as Left Ukrainian Social Democrats or unofficially as "Ukrainian Bolsheviks") joined the Bolsheviks in January 1918. After the signing of the
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the Bolshevik faction of Ukraine was forced to dissolve as all Bolsheviks were forced out of Ukraine. However, the Bolsheviks returned several months later in what is known both as the second
Soviet-Ukrainian War and the
Ukrainian War of Independence, in which the
Ukrainian People's Republic would ultimately lose to the Russians, with the territory of Ukraine included in the Soviet Russia and then Soviet Union. During the
First Five-Year Plan, the Party took direct responsibility for
collectivization of agricultural land and eventually in forced requisitions of grain that led to the deadly
Holodomor. On 13 October 1952, the party officially was renamed as the
Communist Party of Ukraine. On 24 October 1990, article 6 on the monopoly of the Communist Party of Ukraine on power was excluded from the
Constitution of the Ukrainian SSR. On 30 August 1991, the Communist Party was outlawed in Ukraine. Different sectors reconstituted themselves in different parties. One group led by moderate members under
Oleksandr Moroz formed the
Socialist Party of Ukraine (SPU) out of most of the former members, a group of agrarians led by
Serhiy Dovhan and
Oleksandr Tkachenko formed the
Peasant Party of Ukraine (SelPU), and another group, the
Communist Party of Ukraine, was re-created in 1993 in
Donetsk under the leadership of
Petro Symonenko when the ban was lifted. The remaining members either changed political direction or created their own left-wing parties such as the Vitrenko bloc, Social-Democratic (United) party, and others. Following the 2014
Revolution of Dignity, all communist parties on the territory of Ukraine were outlawed and banned, with the ideology criminalized. ==Organizational structure==