The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (CP RSFSR; Russian: Коммунистическая партия Российской Советской Федеративной Социалистической Республики; КП РСФСР; Kommunisticheskaya partiya Rossiyskoy Sovetskoy Federativnoy Sotsialisticheskoy Respubliki, KP RSFSR), often referred to as the Communist Party of Russia or the Russian Communist Party, was a communist political party in the Russian SFSR. The Communist Party of the Russian SFSR was founded in 1990. At this point, the Communist Party of the Russian SFSR being the republican branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, organized around 58% of the total Communist Party membership. Politically, it became a centre for communist opponents of Gorbachev's leadership.