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Communist Party of Slovakia Komunistická strana Slovenska | |
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| Founded | May 1939 |
| Dissolved | 22 November 1990 |
| Preceded by | Communist Party of Czechoslovakia |
| Succeeded by | Party of the Democratic Left |
| Newspaper | Pravda |
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| Political position | Far-left |
| National affiliation | Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (1948–1990) |
| National organization | National Front (1944–1990) |
TheCommunist Party of Slovakia (Slovak:Komunistická strana Slovenska, KSS) was acommunist party in theSlovak Socialist Republic. It was formed in May 1939, when theSlovak State was created, as the Slovak branches of theCommunist Party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ) were separated from the mother party. When Czechoslovakia was again established as a unified state, the KSS was still a separate party for a while (1945–1948). On 29 September 1948, it was reunited with the KSČ and continued to exist as an "organizational territorial unit of the KSČ on the territory of Slovakia". Its main organ (and thus the main newspaper in Slovakia at the time) wasPravda.
After the merger KSS functioned as a regional affiliate of the KSČ, not as an independent political institution. Therefore, the organizational structure of the KSS mirrored that of the KSČ: the KSS Congress held session for several days every five years (and just before the KSČ's Congress), selecting itsCentral Committee members and candidate members, who in turn selected aPresidium, aSecretariat, and aFirst Secretary (i.e. party leader).
The most important first secretaries wereAlexander Dubček (1963–1968) andJozef Lenárt (1970–1988). Following the March 1986 party congress, the KSS Presidium consisted of 11 members; the Secretariat included, in addition to Lenárt, three secretaries and two members; and the Central Committee comprised 95 full members and 36 candidate members. The KSS in 1986 also had its own Central Control and Auditing Commission, four other commissions, twelve party departments, and one training facility.
KSS ceased to exist in 1990 (following theVelvet Revolution), when it was transformed into the independentsocial democratic party called theParty of Democratic Left (SDĽ). Most of that party, in turn, is now part ofDirection – Social Democracy, which had separated from the SDĽ in 2000.
A newCommunist Party of Slovakia was, however, founded in 1992 from a merger of theCommunist Party of Slovakia – 91 andCommunist League of Slovakia.
| Date | Leader | Votes | Seats | Position | |||
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| # | % | # | ± | Size | |||
| 1938 | Banned.Hlinka's Slovak People's Party sole legal party. | ||||||
| 1946 | Karol Šmidke | 489,596 | 30.61 | 31 / 100 |  31 | 2nd | Coalition |
| 1948 | Štefan Bašťovanský | as part ofNational Front | 78 / 100 | 47 | 1st | Majority | |
| 1954 | Karol Bacílek | 47 / 103 |  28 | 1st | Majority | ||
| 1960 | Karol Bacílek | 45 / 100 | 2 | 1st | Majority | ||
| 1964 | Alexander Dubček | 58 / 92 | 13 | 1st | Majority | ||
| 1971 | Jozef Lenárt | 102 / 150 | 44 | 1st | Majority | ||
| 1976 | Jozef Lenárt | 101 / 150 | 1 | 1st | Majority | ||
| 1981 | Jozef Lenárt | 102 / 150 | 1 | 1st | Majority | ||
| 1986 | Jozef Lenárt | 103 / 150 | 1 | 1st | Majority | ||
| 1990 | Peter Weiss | 450,855 | 13.35 | 22 / 150 | 81 | 4th | Opposition |
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