The Communists received 12% of the vote in 2007 and 20% in 2011. That’s quite an accomplishment and Gennady Zyuganov has studied the record of the only Communist Party to win a free election in the post-Soviet space, the Party Of Communists of Moldavia, now in opposition in that country. Its the only Russian political party with anything like a nationwide organization.
Would it be going out on a limb to say that UR gets some of its support from so-called “liberals” who are afraid of the communists coming back into power?