Communist Party of Lithuania (1919)

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The Communist Party of Lithuania (Lithuanian: Lietuvos komunistų partija, abbreviated LKP, often referred to as the "LKP of A. Domaševičius" or "LSDP-LKP" to differentiate it from the more well-known Communist Party of Lithuania) was a short-lived political party in the Soviet Lithuania/Socialist Soviet Republic of Lithuania and Belorussia.^[1][2]

The party emerged from a January 1919 split in the

On 30 January 1919 a party conference of the Vilnius and Naujoji Vilnia branches of LSDP and some LSDP central committee members resolved to adopt the name 'Communist Party of Lithuania', decided to begin unification negotiations with the Communist Party of Lithuania and Belorussia, and declared themselves separated from the pro-Taryba faction of LSDP.^[1][2] At a party conference held on 22–23 February 1919 a resolution was adopted calling for the merger into the Communist Party of Lithuania and Belorussia. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Lithuania and Belorussia agreed to a merger in principle, and debated the merger logistics at multiple occasions.^[1] By the time Vilnius was seized by Polish forces in April 1919, the merger had not yet materialized.^[1][2] Domaševičius was arrested was the Polish authorities. The party disintegrated shortly thereafter.^[2]

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