Byelorussian Communist Organization
The Byelorussian Communist Organisation was a communist group in Belarus, led by Usievalad Ihnatoŭski. It emerged from the organisation 'Young Belarus', which was founded in the Minsk Teaching Institute in 1917. In 1918 the group became an autonomous section of the. On 1 January the group broke away and formed the BKO as a separate party. In August 1920 BKO merged into the Communist Party of Lithuania and Byelorussia.