{{Infobox political party | name = Bloc of Communists and Non-Partisans | native_name = Блок коммунистов и беспартийных | logo = | colorcode = {{party color|Bloc of Communists and Non-Partisans}} | leader1_title = First leader | leader1_name = [[Joseph Stalin]] | leader2_title = Last leader | leader2_name = [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] | founded = {{start date|1937|12|6|df=yes}} | dissolved = 1991 | abbreviation = BKb | wing1_title = Mother Party | wing1 = [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] | ideology = {{ubl|[[Communism]]|[[Marxism–Leninism]]|[[Stalinism]] (until 1956)}} | position = [[Far-left politics|Far-left]] | country = [[Soviet Union]] }} [[File:Иосиф_Сталин_на_выборах_(1937).png|thumb|right|alt=Bloc of Communists and Non-Partisans was a political alliance in the Soviet Union of the Communist Party in 1937]] The '''Bloc of Communists and Non-Partisans''' ({{langx|ru|Блок коммунистов и беспартийных|Blok kommunistov i bespartiynykh}}) was a [[political alliance]] in the Soviet Union of the [[CPSU|Communist Party]] with [[Nonpartisanism|non-partisans]],<ref name=bloc>[https://www.booksite.ru/fulltext/1/001/008/122/009.htm Блок коммунистов и беспартийных в СССР, политический союз Коммунистической партии с беспартийными трудящимися]</ref> which nominated its candidates on a non-alternative basis in all [[Elections in the Soviet Union|elections]] to the Soviets from [[1937 Soviet Union legislative election|1937]] until [[1984 Soviet Union legislative election|1984]].<ref>''Кимерлинг А. С.'' [http://maiskoechtivo.pstu.ru/2006/4/4.htm Индивидуальная форма политической презентации власти в позднюю сталинскую эпоху] // «Майские чтения» 2006 — ежегодная Всероссийская конференция, проводимая кафедрой культурологии Пермского государственного технического университета</ref><ref>[https://www.rcoit.ru/lib/history/1918-1990/17084/ Избирательное законодательство и выборы в 1937-1987 гг.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221216012843/https://www.rcoit.ru/lib/history/1918-1990/17084/|date=16 December 2022}}.</ref> The alliance's last election was also the Soviet Union's last national election, in [[1989 Soviet Union legislative election|1989]]. The alliance dissolved along with the Communist Party and Soviet Union in late 1991.
==History== The bloc was founded on 7 December 1937, when the newspaper ''[[Pravda]]'' announced the establishment of a political association of communists and non-party members before the [[1937 Soviet Union legislative election]],<ref name=bloc/> which was created with the aim of creating a semblance of unity between the party and the people after the defeat of the opposition and political figures disloyal to Stalin.<ref name=Zemtsov>{{cite book |last=Zemtsov |first=Ilya |title=Советский политический язык |trans-title=Soviet Political Language |publisher=Overseas Publications Interchange |publication-place=London |date=1985 |isbn=978-0-903868-67-9 |language=ru}}</ref> According to Ilya Zemtsov, one of the bloc's goals was to create the appearance that political repressions were carried out in the interests of the people and led to the establishment of people's democracy, although non-party members were carefully selected and approved by party organizations.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Getty |first=J. Arch |title=State and Society under Stalin: Constitutions and Elections in the 1930s |journal=Slavic Review |volume=50 |issue=1 |date=1991 |issn=0037-6779 |doi=10.2307/2500596 |pages=18–35 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0037677900000826/type/journal_article |access-date=2026-03-08|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
The emergence of such an alliance was due to the fact that the Communist Party, in order to create the illusion of alternative or democratic elections, had no one to form an alliance with, as other political forces were banned, and the [[Komsomol]], which had previously been nominated in the elections, was an openly subordinate force, lacking even the semblance of autonomy. Because of this, they were deemed unsuitable for an alliance, so the Communist Party could only create the appearance of democracy by forming an alliance with ephemeral non-partisan forces, which, although a priori lacking unity or their own structures, can create a semblance of democratic procedures.<ref name=Zemtsov/>
==References== {{Reflist}} {{Communist Party of the Soviet Union}} [[Category:1936 establishments in the Soviet Union]] [[Category:1990 disestablishments in the Soviet Union]] [[Category:Political parties disestablished in 1990]] [[Category:Political parties established in 1936]] [[Category:Political party alliances in the Soviet Union]] [[Category:Popular fronts of communist states]] {{Russia-party-stub}} {{USSR-stub}}