Communist Party of Lithuania
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The Communist Party of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos komunistų partija, Russian: Коммунистическая партия Литвы) was a communist party in Lithuania, established in early October 1918. The party was banned in December 1926.[1]
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[edit] 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.
[edit] First Secretaries of the Communist Party of Lithuania
- Antanas Sniečkus July 21, 1940 - June 24, 1941
- Antanas Sniečkus (again) February 18, 1944 - January 22, 1974
- Petras Griškevičius February 18, 1974 - November 14, 1987
- Ringaudas Bronislovas Songaila December 1, 1987 - October 19, 1988
- Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas (Continued as First Secretary of Independent Communist Party to December, 1990) October 19, 1988 - December, 1989
- Mykolas Burokevičius ("Leading" role of the party abolished December 7, 1989) December, 1989 - August, 1991
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Nordost-Archiv: Joachim Tauber: Das Memelgebiet (1919-1944) in der deutschen und litauischen Historiographie nach 1945
- ^ Misiunas, Romuald J.; Rein Taagepera (1993). The Baltic States: Years of Dependence 1940–1990 (expanded ed.). University of California Press. pp. 359–360. ISBN 0-520-08228-1.
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