The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the founding party of a socialist state.
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union , abbreviated in English as CPSU , was the founding and ruling political party of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics -LRB- USSR or Soviet Union -RRB- .	Union of Soviet Socialist Republics	Soviet Union
The Soviet Union -LRB- -LSB-   , r = Sovetskiy Soyuz -RSB- -LSB- s ` vetskj sjs -RSB- -RRB- , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics -LRB- USSR ;     , -LSB- sjus svtskx stslstitskx rspublk -RSB- -RRB- , also known unofficially as Russia -LRB- -LSB-  , Rossiya , rsij -RSB- -RRB- , was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991 .	socialist state	socialist state	Soviet	Soviet people	Eurasia	Eurasia
