Communist Party of Abkhazia

The Communist Party of Abkhazia (Russian Коммунистическая партия Абхазии / Kommunisticheskaya partija Abchasii, also briefly KPA ) is a party to the recognized only by a few States the Republic of Abkhazia.

History

The KPA was founded in March 1921 in a bid to create a separate Abkhazian Soviet Republic. This Abkhazian Soviet Socialist Republic was to be directly integrated into the Soviet Union. Chairman was E. Eschba, in the Sukhumi -initiated earlier in the summer of 1918 a Bolshevik Revolutionary Committee. During the Soviet era, the KPA was part of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

After the de facto independence collapse of the Soviet Union and the achievement of the KPA was refounded in 1994 as an independent party.

Even today, the KPA has close contacts with communist groups in Russia and other post - Soviet states. She is a member of the Union of Communist Parties - Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Unlike other communist parties in the region, they do not see themselves and Stalin as classics of Marxism -Leninism.