Defunct (ruling)
- Czechoslovakia - Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic branch became Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia and Slovak branch became the Party of the Democratic Left
- Soviet Union - Communist Party of the Soviet Union, previously the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
- Yugoslavia - League of Communists of Yugoslavia
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Famous quotes containing the word defunct:
“The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)