 In November 1991, she became the general secretary of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, which saw itself as the successor to the CPSU.In October 1993, the party was temporarily suspended along with fifteen other organisations after President Yeltsin's repression of the attempted coup against his regime.In May 1995 she was removed from the post as the head of the St. Petersburg Central Committee of the party for "lack of revolutionary activity."