[1] It is the successor to the Samara Stachkom, a Maoist Russian dissident movement from the time of the Era of Stagnation during the Soviet Union.
The PDP was founded in 1990, by Alexei Razlatsky and Grigory Isayev, communist dissidents in the Samara region of Russia.
[1] The party is currently based in the city of Samara and was led by Grigory Isayev, until his death in 2020.
[1] The Party has never contested elections, as its support is small and highly localized to machine workers in the Samara region, many of whom have been long-time members.
Following the death of Isayev, the party's standing remains unclear in Russia, and it may have ceased to exist or returned to a purely underground state.