This a proposed breakdown of the post-democratization Soviet Union's parties, inspired by Jello's breakdown of the UASR's parties as shown
here.
Libertarian Party of the Soviet Union
Founded: 1998
Ideology: left-wing libertarianism
Political position: left-wing (USSR), far-left (International)
International Affiliation: Libertarian International
Official Color: Blue
Youth Wing: Free Youth
Party Newspaper: Lenin's Heirs
General Description: the LPSV is at the forefront of the anti-statist movement in the Soviet Union, and the dominant party of the anarchist left. The party was largely a grassroot movement throughout the 90s amongst the the youth of Gen X and thus become a major player in the early 2000s as a party. The Libertarians have adopted an uncompromissing stance regarding the government, and have "starve the beast" program in which they obstruct any government budget until the government shuts down. In its ballot, the Libertarian party has the middle-aged people, women, queer people and ethnic minorities.
Political stances
Capital Punishment: universally opposed
Civil Defense: the Libertartians consider civil defense programs as overtly militaristic and barbaric
Cultural Stance: strong supporter of the Cultural Leap's values, the Libertarian Party is the hotbed of feminist, queer and racial and religious minorities' identity politics
Defense: opposes standing armies, and supports the dismantling of the armed forces and replacing it with militia-system
Drug Policy: total decriminalization of all drugs, combined with civilian-run programs to combat addiction
Economy: universally opposed to any government role in the economy, which is to be run by workers' councils
Education: support for increased regional control of education
Environment: opposed to legislation to combat polution and ecological degradation
Foreign Aid: the Libertarians support foreign aid to be used to promote democratic values in developing socialist states
Foreign Alliances: isolasionists
Health Policy: support a council workers'-run health system
Immigration: supports open borders
Social Welfare: opposed to government programs, which are to be transferred into the workers' councils
Taxation: universally opposed
Trade: supports greater autonomy for regional trade
Workers' League
Founded: 1984
Ideology: neo-conservatism, international socialism
Political position: far-left (USSR), left-wing (International)
International Affiliation: Communist International
Official Color: Orange
Youth Wing: Proletarian Front
Party Newspaper: United!
General Discription: Historically the dominant internationalist and socially progressive party, the WL has moved to the left during the late 90s with the rise of isolationist Libertarians. The WL has ideologically embraced neo-conservatism and, while in power, has pushed measures to finance revolutionary activities across the world, and often clashes with the Libertarians due to the WL's support for a strong, centralized military. In its ballot, the WL includes the "old vanguard", scientists, a significative portion of the middle-aged vote and military personnel.
Political stances
Capital Punishment: the Workers' League continues to support using the death penalty against counterrevolutionary crimes and opposes efforts of provincial governments to abolish it
Civil Defense: supports a strong, state-sponsored military training program for minors
Cultural Stance: strongly supports the Cultural Leap's values, although doesn't support identity politics as much as the Libertarian Party
Defense: supports that each state-member keep a standing army and its plataform supports preversing the Soviet Union's military strenght
Drug Policy: supports decriminalization of soft drugs, combined with programs to combat addiction
Economy: universally opposes any government role in the economy, which is to be run by workers' councils
Education: increased support for regional control of schools and universities
Environment: mostly a back-burner issue for the WL.
Foreign Aid: supports using foreign aid to built strong alliances that benefit the people of the Soviet Union
Foreign Alliances: supports tighter military relations with China and the UASR
Health Policy: supports a workers' councils-run health system
Immigration: generally favoring open borders
Social Welfare: supports transfering social programs from the central government to the provincional governments
Taxation: supports replacing taxes with production quotas, with substancial material to be requisitioned by the state to sustain the military
Trade: The WL is regarded as the party of free trade, although it favors communist states over capitalist ones
Liberal Democrats (Kadets)
Founded:1979
Ideology: liberal socialism
Political position: center-right (USSR), left-wing (international)
International Affiliation: International Democrat Union
Official Color: Purple
Youth Wing: Liberal Youth
Party Newspaper: People's Power
General Discription: While historically they have competed with the Workers' League for domination of the progressive vote, the Kadets have moved to the right with the rise of Libertarians. As architects of the Soviet welfare state, the Kadets are ideological enemies of the anarchist left that seeks to destroy the state. In their ballot, the Kadets have students, intellectual property advocates, farmers and fishermen, and the suburbia.
Political stances
Capital Punishment: Universally opposed
Civil Defense: the party supports a state-sponsored military training program for youth similar to the Civil Defense Initiative in the UASR.
Cultural Stance: strong support for the Cultural Leap[1] movement, and strenghtening of civil liberties
Defense: Supports a multilateral international nuclear disarmament program
Drug Policy: middle-of-the road, supporting decriminalization of soft drugs
Economy: supports a mixed economy with independent workers' councils handling most economic affairs except essencial goods like heavy industry
Education: supports a state-sponsored educational program to preserve standarts, and opposes parochial schools
Environment: the Kadets have pushed for strong government regulations regarding enviroment degradation, but it's mostly a back-burner issue
Foreign Aid: the Kadets supports using foreign aid in order to foster democratic values in developing socialist states
Foreign Alliances: support of increased cooperation with the People's Republic of China to form a cordon sanitaire against the FBU-aligned India
Health Policy: support a government-sponsored free healthcare system
Immigration: the Kadets have favored highly permissive immigration policy, including offering asylum to anyone from war torn or oppressive regimes.
Social Welfare: the Kadets have been the architects of the modern Soviet welfare state, from child support subsidies, universal healthcare and public ownership of housing programs
Taxation: the Kadets are opposed to income taxes on individuals, and support progressive production taxation on workers' councils
Trade: supports an autarkic economic policy
Communist Party of Ukraine
Founded: 1981
Ideology: council communism, left-wing populism
Political position: left-wing (USSR), far-left (International)
International Affiliation: Socialist International
Official Color: Black
Youth Wing: Radical Patriots
Party Newspaper: Foward!
General Description: As heir of the Ukrainian branch of the CPSV, the CPU was an easy target in the late 70s. Accused of being Stalinist if not anti-communist, the CPU was adrift until it found its footing amongst the 80s' reforms. Adopting a populist stance and seeking protection of the new liberties, the CPU strenghtened its position in Ukraine until finally it was the dominant voice in that particular SSR.
Political stances
Capital Punishment: the CPU supports the death penalty regarding counterrevolutionary acts or war crimes
Civil Defense: supports a goverment-sponsered military training program for minors
Cultural Stance: middle-of-the road, but strongly conservative-leaning
Defense: supports the creation of a Ukrainian standing army
Drug Policy: supports criminalization of most drugs
Economy: supports a mixed participatory economy, with greater government role regarding essencial goods like the agriculture
Education: supports increased regional influence over educational policy
Environment: while the CPU has made important steps to fight climate change and polution in Ukraine, it has remained a back-burner issue
Foreign Aid: supports using foreign aid to built strong alliances
Foreign Alliances: support the creation of cordon sanitaire with the People's Republic of China against India and closer economic ties with the UASR
Health Policy: supports a workers' council-run (private) universal healthcare system, with strong government regulation to ensure preserving the standarts
Immigration: has supported a permissive immigration policy, especially for people fleeing war-torn regions
Social Welfare: supports a strong welfare program and the Communist Party is the founder of the modern housing and subsidies programs in Ukraine
Taxation: universally opposed
Trade: the CPU supports increased control over trading praticses
Radical Syndicalists
Founded:1976
Ideology: libertarian socialism, syndicalism
Political position: center-left (USSR), far-left (international)
International Affiliation: Communist International
Official Color: Red
Youth Wing: United Front
Party Newspaper: Freedom!
General Discription: The Radical Syndicalists are neither a party or a political alliance, but a political machine with the purpose of influencing national elections in favor of Caucassian SSR. The roots of its creation were planted in an international congress of soviets in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, where many Caucassian political parties and trade unions created a political pact to promote their values. It was not until the early 80s that the Radical Syndicalists entered national politics as single boc, after many successful electoral victories in the Caucasus.
Political stances
Capital Punishment: universally opposed
Civil Defense: supports a civilian-run military training program, financied by the workers' councils
Cultural Stance: strong support for Cultural Leap's [1] values, with stronger focus on supporting Soviet culture, arts and heritage
Defense: universally opposed to state-controlled military, the RSP believe in a militia-based defense
Drug Policy: supports the status quo
Economy: universally opposed to any government involvement in the economy, and supports greater independence for the workers' councils
Education: the RSP supports greater regional control of educational policy
Environment: the Radical Syndicalists support the creation of a workers' council-run committee to develop public policy in order to combat enviromental degradation
Foreign Aid: the RSP often support cutting foreign aid in order to trim the government budget
Foreign Alliances: support greater autonomy for the state-members regarding international affairs
Health Policy: support a council workers'-run (private) universal healthcare system
Immigration: generally restrictive immigration policy
Social Welfare: the party supports public programs in order to combat homelessness and hunger at home
Taxation: universally opposed
Trade: supports greater autonomy in regional trading praticses
Soviet Values
Founded: 1985
Ideology: social conservatism, economic libertarianism
Political position: far-right (USSR), center-right (International)
International Affiliation: International Democrat Union
Official Color: Gold
Youth Wing: the SV does not have a youth wing
Party Newspaper: Always Forward!
General Discription: the Soviet Values is a political alliance between various "Values" parties of all member-states except Ukraine. It was initially a PAC seeking to guide the various "Values" parties that rose during the first period of the Cultural Leap. However as the CL took a sharp shift to the left during the early 90s, the Soviet Values PAC centralized under the increased pressure of the Eastern Orthodox Church. The SV is truly reactionary, although it embraces the economic consensus of the left, and in its ballot the largest demographic are Orthodox Christians.
Capital Punishment: the SV supports using death penalty against rapists, pedophiles, human traffickers and counterrevolutionaries
Civil Defense: supports increased regional autonomy regarding civil defense programs
Cultural Stance: universally opposed to the values of the Cultural Leap as "hedonistic" and "anti-Soviet". The Soviet Values also supports granting a greater status to the Ortodox Churches - specially to the Russian Orthodox Church- and supports criminalization of homosexuality, opposes abortion and contraceptives
Defense: the Soviet Values supports that each member-state of the Soviet Union to have its own standing army
Drug Policy: universally opposed to any softening regarding drugs
Economy: the SV supports a mixed economy, with economic sectors linked to national defense being under the government's administration while all other economic sectors controlled by workers' councils
Education: the SV supports increased local control over educational policy, in order to remove "satanic" and "counterrevolutionary" values
Environment: the Soviet Values considers efforts to limits climate change and ecological devastation to be harmful to the communities' economic well-being
Foreign Aid: supports using foreign aid to build strong alliances that benefit the people of the Soviet Union
Foreign Alliances: supports strenghtening relationships with the UASR and the People's Republic of China
Health Policy: SV supports a fully state-controlled healthcare system
Immigration: middle-of-the road, leaning towards tight border control
Social Welfare: the SV supports welfare at state level, controlled by the regional governments.
Taxation: supports revenue to come from renting of public property to workers' councils
Trade: supports trade that favors national an regional production
[1] Made-up name for the USSR's own cultural revolution