The Communist Party of Moldova (Romanian

Romanian language

Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...

: ; PCM; Moldovan Cyrillic: Партидул Комунист ал Молдовей) was one of the fourteen republic

Republics of the Soviet Union

The Republics of the Soviet Union or the Union Republics of the Soviet Union were ethnically-based administrative units that were subordinated directly to the Government of the Soviet Union...

-level parties that formed the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the only legal, ruling political party in the Soviet Union and one of the largest communist organizations in the world...

 (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

Moldavian SSR

The Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic , commonly abbreviated to Moldavian SSR or MSSR, was one of the 15 republics of the Soviet Union...

 from 1940 to 1991. During that time, except for the period of Axis

Axis Powers

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 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

Moldova

Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part...

 declared independence.

After the Communist party was legalised again by the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova

Parliament of the Republic of Moldova

The Parliament of the Republic of Moldova is a unicameral assembly with 101 seats. Its members are elected by popular vote every 4 years. The parliament then elects a president, who functions as the head of state...

 on 7 September 1993, the PCM was reborn as the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova, which became the ruling party in Moldova since the 2001 elections.

The Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Moldova

Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Moldova

The Commission for the Study and Evaluation of the Communist Totalitarian Regime of the Republic of Moldova is a commission instituted in Moldova by acting President Mihai Ghimpu to investigate the Communist regime and provide a comprehensive report allowing for the condemnation of Communism as...

 will study and analyze the 1917-1991 period of the communist regime.

First Secretaries

Name	From	Until
Piotr Borodin Piotr Borodin Piotr Borodin was a Moldavian SSR and Moldavian ASSR politician.- Biography :Piotr Borodin was born on June 6, 1905....	15 August 1940	11 February 1942
Nikita Salogor Nikita Salogor - Biography :Salogor was born on 15 August 1901 in the village of Constantinovka of the Kherson region Ukraine. Salogor was the First Secretary of the Moldavian Communist Party ....	13 February 1942	5 January 1946
Nicolae Coval Nicolae Coval Nicolae Coval was a Moldavian SSR politician.- Biography :Nicolae Coval was born on December 19, 1904, in Camenca, Transnistria...	5 January 1946	3 November 1950
Leonid Brezhnev Leonid Brezhnev Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev  – 10 November 1982) was the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union , presiding over the country from 1964 until his death in 1982. His eighteen-year term as General Secretary was second only to that of Joseph Stalin in...	3 November 1950	16 April 1952
Dimitri Gladki Dimitri Gladki - Biography :Dimitri Spiridonovici Gladki was born in 1911 and died in 1959. He died when he was only 48.Dimitri Gladki was the First Secretary of the Moldavian Communist Party .- External links :* * * -Bibliography:...	16 April 1952	7 February 1954
Zinovie Serdiuk Zinovie Serdiuk Zinovie Serdiuk was a Moldavian politician.- Biography :Zinovie Serdiuk was born on November 15, 1903, in Arbuzinka, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine. He was of Ukrainian origin...	8 February 1954	29 May 1961
Ivan Bodiul Ivan Bodiul Ivan Ivanovich Bodiul was a Moldovan SSR politician.- Biography :Ivan Ivanovich Bodiul was born on 3 January 1918, in Alexandrovca, Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine...	29 May 1961	30 December 1981
Semion Grossu Semion Grossu Semion Grossu is a Moldavian politician and businessman.- Biography :Semion Grossu was born on March 18, 1934, in Satul Nou, Sarata district....	30 December 1981	16 November 1989
Petru Lucinschi Petru Lucinschi Petru Chiril Lucinschi was Moldova's second President .- Biography :Petru Chiril Lucinschi was born on January 27, 1940 in Rădulenii Vechi village, Soroca County, Romania...	16 November 1989	4 February 1991
Grigore Eremei Grigore Eremei Grigore Eremei is a Moldavian politician.- Biography :Grigore Eremei was born on April 22, 1935, in Tîrnova, Edineţ, then in Romania....	4 February 1991	August 1991