 As the Latvian branch of CPSU(b) it was renamed as Communist Party of Latvia (Bolshevik) (, (LK(b)P).When the CPSU(b) was renamed the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1952, the Latvian branch was reconstituted under the old name LKP.Article 6 of the Latvian SSR Constitution (1978) made the LKP's monopoly on political power in Soviet Latvia explicit.