All-Union Communist Party Bolsheviks

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The All-Union Communist Party Bolsheviks (Всесоюзная Коммунистическая партия большевиков, ВКПБ, Vsesoyuznaya Kommunisticheskaya Partiya bol'shevikov, VKPb) is a Marxist-Leninist and anti-revisionist political party operating in Russia and other former Soviet states. It was founded in November 1991, and led by Nina Andreeva a university teacher who was well known for her 1988 letter 'I cannot give up my principles'. The VKPB has its origins in the 'Bolshevik Platform' of the CPSU.

It published a newspaper called Edinstvo ("Единство"), Bolshevik ("Большевик"), Bolshevik Kavkaza ("Большевик Кавказа"), Bolshevik Stavropol'ja ("Большевик Ставрополья"), Bolshevik Osetii ("Большевик Осетии"), Vpered ("Вперед"), Serp i Molot ("Серп и Молот"), Golos Stalingrada ("Голос Сталинграда"), Raboche-Krest'janskaja pravda ("Рабоче-Крестьянская правда").

Its youth section is the All-Union Young Guard Bolsheviks.