Russian United Social Democratic Party

Russian United Social Democratic Party Российская объединённая социал-демократическая партия
Abbreviation	ROSDP
Leader	Mikhail Gorbachev
Founded	11 March 2000 (2000-03-11)
Registered	29 May 2000 (2000-05-29)
Dissolved	24 November 2001 (2001-11-24)
Merger of	Social Democrats Social Democratic Union Russian Democratic Reform Movement Social Liberal Party of Russia Labor Party New Left
Preceded by	Congress of Social Democratic Forces
Succeeded by	Social Democratic Party of Russia (United)
Headquarters	Moscow, Russia
Youth wing	Russian Social-Democratic Union of Youth
Membership (2001)	13,000[1]
Ideology	Social democracy
Political position	Centre-left
Colours	Red
Website
rosdp.ru (archive)
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The Russian United Social Democratic Party (Russian: Российская объединённая социал-демократическая партия, romanized: Rossiyskaya ob"yedinennaya sotsial-demokraticheskaya partiya; ROSDP) was a short-lived Russian center-left political party led by Mikhail Gorbachev, the former president of the USSR. The party included representatives on an individual basis:

• the Social Democrats movement;^[2]
• Social Democratic Union;^[2]
• The Russian Democratic Reform Movement;^[2]
• Social Liberal Party of Russia;^[2]
• the New Left movement;^[2]
• Labor Party, etc.^[2]

In 2001, the party merged with the RPSD in the Social Democratic Party of Russia^[3]