PARTY STIRS NOSTALGIA FOR USSR\Parliament's resolution seen as campaign rhetoric, show of power.

Byline: Associated Press 

Russia's Communist-led parliament decried the breakup of the Soviet Union and demanded its restoration Friday, in an election-year salvo that blamed Boris N. Yeltsin for the country's disintegration.

The angry president called the resolution meaningless, and top officials of several other former Soviet republics dismissed it as campaign propaganda.

But the resolution's approval by a great margin demonstrates the Communist Party's growing clout and pounds home a favorite theme to restive voters as it tries to win back control of the Kremlin this summer: nostalgia for the glory days of the Soviet superpower.

"This is a serious signal that can turn into a funeral march on June 16," the day of Russia's presidential elections, said pro-government lawmaker Alexander Shokhin.

"The Communists . . . have demonstrated that they can pass any resolution, and they showed what is going to happen when they come to full power."

Nevertheless, legal staff of Russia's Constitutional Court said the vote would have no legal impact since it was a resolution, not a legislative bill. In any case, under Russia's constitution the president has overwhelming authority to overturn parliamentary actions.

The resolution received heavy support from nationalists as well as Communists, passing 250-98 with no abstentions. It rejected the December 1991 vote formalizing the breakup of the Soviet Union into 15 separate nations.

It was the first decisive move by a new parliament dominated by anti-government lawmakers and will keep the unpopular Yeltsin on the defensive as he asks disaffected voters to re-elect him.

Communist lawmaker Anatoly Lukyanov, chairman of the old Supreme Soviet and one of the 1991 coup plotters against Mikhail S. Gorbachev, hailed the vote as "a major moral and political move that the people were expecting."

Yeltsin said he had summoned the ambassadors of the other ex-Soviet republics to tell them that the resolution, which he called "irresponsible" and provocative, would have no consequences whatsoever.

"One may presume they (the Communists) want to raise an uproar in all the former Soviet states and . . . undermine the presidential elections," Yeltsin told reporters in the Kremlin.

The success of hard-liners in December elections already has prompted Yeltsin to dump the remaining liberals in his government to try to appease the many Russians worn out by the impact of free-market reforms.

Mindful of the millions of nostalgic voters, Yeltsin said he is working for more integration within the Commonwealth of Independent States, the weak consultative body consisting of 12 ex-Soviet republics.

"We shall gradually pass to a deeper integration, and later on maybe a confederation," he said. "I do not rule this out."