Category:Communist Party of the Soviet Union members

This category includes members of the All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) (1925-1952) and Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1952-1991). For the preceding period in the history of the Party, see category:Bolsheviks

There are two independent types of subcategories:
 * 1) Special subcategories, such as executed, expelled, etc., members
 * 2) Reasonably populated subcategories by power hierarchy. A person is placed in one according to the highest attained place in the CPSU apparat:
 * 3) Heads of the CPSU
 * 4) Heads of CPs of Union republics
 * 5) Members of the Central Committee
 * 6) Heads of party of major cities, so called "cities of union significance" (goroda souyznogo znacheniya/ podchineniya)
 * 7) Midrange leaders and apparat heads of party organizations of cities, oblasts, raions, autonomous republics, major workplaces (plants, kolkhozes, universities, etc.), etc.
 * 8) Other apparat
 * 9) Rank-and-file: not a party functionary. However they may hold high profile governmental positions