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The Social Democratic Party of Russia was a coalition of several social democratic parties, had approximately 12,000 members, but had no seats in the Russian State Duma. Gorbachev resigned as party leader in May 2004 over a disagreement with party chairman Konstantin Titov who had insisted, over Gorbachev's opposition, on a deal with the pro ...
The Union of Social Democrats skipped the 2007 general election, in order to concentrate on its ultimate goal: to become a mass political party by 2011. In September 2008, Gorbachev announced the formation of the Independent Democratic Party of Russia, [2] although the plans later fell through.
The party was later banned in 2007 by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation due to its failure to establish local offices with at least 500 members in the majority of Russian regions, which is required by Russian law for a political organization to be listed as a party. [484]
The Russian United Social Democratic Party (Russian: Российская объединённая социал-демократическая партия, romanized: Rossiyskaya ob"yedinennaya sotsial-demokraticheskaya partiya; ROSDP) was a short-lived Russian center-left political party led by Mikhail Gorbachev, the former president of the USSR.
Gorbachev was happy with the result, describing it as "an enormous political victory under extraordinarily difficult circumstances". [157] The new Congress convened in May 1989. [ 158 ] Gorbachev was then elected its chair—the new de facto head of state—with 2,123 votes in favor to 87 against. [ 159 ]
The Independent Democratic Party of Russia (НДПР, IDPR or NDPR; Russian: Независимая демократическая партия России, romanized: Nezavisimaya demokraticheskaya partiya Rossii) was the proposed name of a liberal party that was announced in late September 2008 to be founded by the former General Secretary of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, and State ...
The General Secretary, Mikhail Gorbachev, declared in his opening speech that political reform was the key issue. [2] [3] Gorbachev wanted to achieve the "democratization of the life of the state and society", and wanted the Soviet Union to "move along the path of the creation of a socialist state under the rule of law".
Political Report of the CPSU Central Committee to the 27th Party Congress by Mikhail Gorbachev; Guidelines for the Economic and Social Development of the USSR for 1986-1990 and for the Period Ending in 2000 by Nikolai Ryzhkov; The Programme of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. A New Edition. Adopted by the 27th Congress of the CPSU on ...