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The Communist Party of Belorussia was a communist party in Belarus created following the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was created as part of the Russian Communist Party (bolsheviks) December 30-31, 1918 with 17,800 members. It was important in creating the Belorussian Soviet Republic in January 1919. From February 1919 until 1920 it functioned as a single organisation together with the Communist Party of Lithuania.[1]
It should not be confused with the two main Belarusian communist parties created in the 1990s: the Communist Party of Belarus (CPB or KPB) - Камуністы́чная па́ртыя Белару́сі - generally described as a pro-presidential party, and the Party of Communists of Belarus (PCB or PKB) - Партыя камуністаў Беларусі - led by Sergey Kalyakin and generally considered to be "pro-Western".[citation needed]