Communist Party of Moldova

For the present-day party, see Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova.

Communist Party of Moldova Partidul Comunist al Moldovei
Founded	1940
Dissolved	August 1991
Succeeded by	Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova
Headquarters	Chişinău
Ideology	Communism
National affiliation	Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Official colours	Red
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The Communist Party of Moldova (Romanian: Partidul Comunist al Moldovei, PCM; Moldovan Cyrillic: Партидул Комунист ал Молдовей; Russian: Коммунистическая партия Молдавии) was one of the fourteen republic-level parties that formed the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Indeed, the PCM was the republic-level chapter of the CPSU in the Moldavian SSR from 1940 to 1991. During that time, except for the period of Axis occupation in 1941-1944, it was the sole legal political party in the republic. It was outlawed by the government in August 1991, just after Moldova declared independence.

After the Communist party was legalised again by the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova on 7 September 1993, the PCM was reborn as the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova, which became the largest party in Moldova since the 2001 elections, and the ruling party from 2001-2009.

The Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Moldova will study and analyze the 1917-1991 period of the communist regime.

First Secretaries

Name	From	Until
Piotr Borodin	15 August 1940	11 February 1942
Nikita Salogor	13 February 1942	5 January 1946
Nicolae Coval	5 January 1946	3 November 1950
Leonid Brezhnev	3 November 1950	16 April 1952
Dimitri Gladki	16 April 1952	7 February 1954
Zinovie Serdiuk	8 February 1954	29 May 1961
Ivan Bodiul	29 May 1961	30 December 1981
Semion Grossu	30 December 1981	16 November 1989
Petru Lucinschi	16 November 1989	4 February 1991
Grigore Eremei	4 February 1991	August 1991