One has to do with personnel. None of them are in the Communist Party anymore. And what remains behind are quite frankly in most cases the dregs of the Communist Party, which is quite a dismal scene. The other aspect is ideological. The Communist Party today is not the Communist Party of the late 80's which was reformist but, rather, it is subsumed, it has taken on the trappings of nationalism.
Russian nationalism is something quite different from ordinary patriotism.
It has the trappings of anti-semitism. It believes Russia has a special mission in history quite apart from the rest of the world. It's innately xenophobic and quite dangerous. And Zyuganov quite smartly realized that Communism, in the old sense, no longer was a winning ticket. He had to lasso these resentments and make it part of his politics, and he's done this very, very successfully.