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  TWENTIETH CONGRESS OF CPSU
The line of the 20th Congress was formally approved of, and accepted as the guiding line of the socialist countries, in the Declaration of the Communist Parties of the 12 Socialist countries which was issued after a meeting in Moscow in November 1957.
To be specific, it began with the 20th Congress of the CPSU in 1956'…The document continues, (Ed.) 'The errors of the 20th Congress brought great ideological confusion in the international communist movement and caused it to be deluged with revisionist ideas.
This is clearly a reversal of the public estimate of the 20th Congress made by the CPC in 1956, and repeated in its support for the declaration of 1957 and the statement of 1960.
www.oneparty.co.uk /html/cpc20thc.html   (7827 words)

  
 Polish culture: "1956 - A European date"
The events of the era (the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Nikita Khrushchev's speech, the workers' uprising in Poznan, the Polish October and the Soviet intervention in Hungary have been frequently analysed and commemorated as the first schism within the Soviet totalitarian system.
The role of the Congress has an importance beyond the power struggle that made it possible: using a routine conference as a means, it was necessary to take steps to adapt a system which was suffocating as a result of its contradictions.
Colloquium in Moscow with the "Memorial Centre" the Franco-Russian Centre for Social and Human Sciences of Moscow "The 20th Congress of the CPSU in the History of the Soviet Union", organised under the initiative of Professor Alexis Berelowitch.
www.culture.pl /en/culture/artykuly/wy_1956_dni_studyjne_paryz   (1040 words)

  
 Government portal :: Governments of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
At the 17th Congress of the CPSU(B) M. Khrushchov was elected a member of the Central Committee of CPSU(B).
At the 20th Congress of the CPSU (1956) M. Khrushchov initiated the condemnation of Stalin’s so-called cult of personality, which actually meant the beginning of careful and discordant liberalization of the regime.
It was at the October (1964) Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU.
www.kmu.gov.ua /control/en/publish/printable_article?art_id=1334056   (1173 words)

  
 Remembering Stalin
Congress of the CPSU of 1956 where, raising the bogey of fighting the cult of individual the Khruschovite revisionist CPSU leadership actually undermined Stalin.
CPSU Congress of 1961, they officially adopted de-Stalinisation measures and mounted open anti-Stalin attack, denigrating this great man as ‘egotist’, ‘power-hungry’, ‘despotic’, ‘indulgent to his own cult’ etc.
Congress of the CPSU our party came out, in May 1956, with a thorough exposure of the pretentious fight of the Khrushchovite leadership against the cult of individual which was published in our organs of the period.
www.northstarcompass.org /nsc0508/stalin.htm   (6665 words)

  
 34th Anniversary of CPMLE
The rightist line, whose chief exponent was Pedro Saad, the General Secretary of the Party, introduced the ideas of conciliation and abandonment of principles from the 20th Congress of the CPSU, held in February, 1956.
After the 7th Congress, the differences deepened regarding the following points: on the present task of the working class and its allies for the seizure of political power; the road for the Ecuadorian revolution; the role of the peasantry; whether the revolutionary line of the 7th Congress was to be applied or not.
The Congress was organized in Pascuales, Guayas Province, in the house of a friend of the Party.
www.mltranslations.org /Ecuador/34anniv.htm   (934 words)

  
 Modern History Sourcebook: Chinese Communist Party: The Leaders of the CPSU are the Greates Splitters of Our Times, ...
The leaders of the CPSU have openly called for the overthrow of the Party and government leaders of Albania, brashly severed all economic and diplomatic relations with her and tyrannically deprived her of her legitimate rights as a member of the Warsaw Treaty Organization and the Council of Economic Mutual Assistance.
Since the 20th Congress of the CPSU its leaders have tried, on the pretext of "combating the personality cult," to change the leadership of other fraternal Parties to conform to their will.
The leaders of the CPSU are bent on seeking Soviet-U.S. co-operation for the domination of the world, they regard U.S. imperialism, the most ferocious enciny of the people of the world, as their most reliable friend, and they treat the fraternal Parties and countries adhering to Marxism-Leninism as their enemy.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/1964CCP-onCPSU.html   (1533 words)

  
 The Origin And Development Of The Differences Between The Leadership Of The CPSU And Ourselves   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The CPSU published many books and articles in which it tampered with the fundamental theories of Marxism-Leninism, emasculated their revolutionary spirit and propagated its revisionist views on a whole series of important problems of principle in the fields of philosophy, political economy, socialist and communist theory, history, literature and art.
The 22nd Congress of the CPSU in October 1961 marked a new low in the CPSU leadership’s efforts to oppose Marxism-Leninism and split the socialist camp and the international communist movement.
He openly stated that after the 20th Congress of the CPSU, when the leaders of the CPSU were beginning to take a “road different from that of Stalin” (that is, when they were beginning to take the road of revisionism), they still needed the support of the fraternal Parties.
www.marxists.org /subject/china/documents/polemic/cpsu.htm   (12985 words)

  
 Korea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Nevertheless, the WPK is in the camp of those who see modern revisionism as originating in the 1950s, particularly centring on the infamous 20th Congress of the CPSU, rather than in the camp of those who see modern revisionism as a phenomenon of the late 1980s, associated with Gorbachev.
Khrushchev had made his speech to the 20th Congress of the CPSU heralding the onset of modern revisionism (revisionists surfaced in a number of parties and tried to destroy, for example, the CPGB) and the imperialists launched a fierce international anticommunist campaign.
Indeed the CPSU fraternal delegate to the 3rd Congress of the WPK (who was none other than a certain L. Brezhnev) made a veiled attack on the WPK leadership.
www.geocities.com /athens/pantheon/5666/korea.html   (2795 words)

  
 CHINESE COMMUNIST CRITIQUES OF SOVIET SOCIETY
Congress of the CPSU in 1956 that Mao Tse-tung and the CPC began to publicly criticise the political line of the CPSU and the changing character of Soviet society.
The article denounced Khrushchov’s claim that in the USSR the dictatorship of the proletariat was no longer necessary and that the CPSU had become a "party of the entire people" and that the Soviet state was now one "of the whole people".
It might be argued that up until Stalin’s death the political line of the CPSU predominantly reflected the interests of the Soviet workers and peasants but this is not the same thing as them actually exercising real power.
freespace.virgin.net /pep.talk/Chinese.htm   (3368 words)

  
 منتديات ستون هنج - RESTORATION of CAPITALISM in the USSR
It is from the CPSU itself that the Trotskyists have drawn and spread the defeatist line that its original pessimism regarding the impossibility of building socialism in one country has been vindicated.
At the 17th party congress in January 1934, Stalin -- speaking for the central committee -- was able to make the landmark declaration that the socialist economic formation "now holds unchallenged sway and is the sole commanding force in the whole national economy." (Works, Vol.
It was this triumphant spirit that animated the party's 17th Congress of 1934, inspired the adoption of the historic Soviet constitution of 1936 and provided the context for extensive measures of democratization in the Soviet government apparatus in 1937 and the strengthening of democracy and centralism in the party at the 18th Congress in 1939.
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 NCP 12th National Congress
The Comintern held seven congresses, the first in 1919 and the last in 1935 and was dissolved in 1943 during the Second World War.
Following the 20th Congress of the CPSU and Krushchov's bitter denunciation of Stalin, revisionist forces gradually increased their influence in the leadership of the Soviet party.
As the right revisionist trend was increasingly accommodated in the CPSU leadership, the way was paved for liquidationist and counter-revolutionary forces to gain control.
www.newworker.org /12congres7.htm   (2619 words)

  
 NCPB 11th National Congress
An important continuity factor of internationalism in the Congress was brought to bear through the contributions of fraternal guests and received messages.
In particular, two motions calling for the deletion of the entire section in the main political resolution on the 20th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party and Khruschov's so-called secret speech, were overwhelmingly rejected.
Central to this is the following formulation on the 20th Congress, adopted in the main political resolution: "The basis of post-war revisionism was laid at the 20th Congress of the CPSU.
www.newworker.org /confreport.htm   (2784 words)

  
 RRIII, Pt. 5: The Seventh Comintern Congress and The United Front Against Fascism
Modern revisionism didn't fallout of the sky at the 20th Congress of the CPSU.
The 7th Congress correctly indicated that the imperialists needed war because they were in a crisis, wanted to redivide the world for imperialist plunder and wanted to forestall the growth of the revolutionary movement by smashing the communists and attacking the Soviet Union.
The United Front 7th Congress line is reflected in Mao's alliance with the national bourgeoisie and conception of the new democratic state as a joint dictatorship of the working class, peasants, intelligentsia and national bourgeoisie, led by the working class.
www.plp.org /rr3/7thcomcongress.html   (7448 words)

  
 A Proposal for Further Common Study of the 20th Party Congress of 1956   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
party congress and the subsequent lines of the most important communist parties, their work, their achievements and their failings and in doing so include also all the diverse, contradictory views.
This was in the beginning of the Fifties already a precursor of the theory which later on was decidedly advocated in China, that socialism means continuation of the class struggle in the socialist period extending over several epochs and several great struggles.
For the party congress which had been convened for February, 1956, the Khrushchev people did in fact plan a kind of a coup.
www.neue-einheit.com /english/is/is2002/is2002-20e.htm   (2434 words)

  
 16th Party Congress of the CPG: The Apotheosis of Bureaucratic Degeneration
But there’s no doubt that the main result of the party congress is the confirmation of the basically right, partially even reactionary, Stalinist-bureaucratic line of the party apparatus, and this, of course, “unanimously”.
There was virtually no real controversial discussion at the congress and this is even for the CPG a novelty.
In other words, those who should have accounted to the congress for what they did, were the overwhelming majority at the congress.
www.okde.org /keimena/greece_cp_ivp_feb_2001.htm   (2421 words)

  
 Discussion on the 20th Congress of the CPSU
It is perhaps for this reason that the publication of two contemporary critiques of the Twentieth Congress by Neil Goold and Moni Guha and the historical assessment of the Congress by 'Inter' in this journal (Vol.
If the parties which participated in the Great Debate were compromised by their earlier support for the Twentieth Congress of the CPSU then it may also be noted that those who were early critics of the Twentieth Congress were not necessarily able to carry out a consistent and uncompromising struggle against modern revisionism.
Moni Guha, Yugoslav Revisionism and the Role of the CPSU and CPC, Calcutta,1978, 62 pp.
revolutionarydemocracy.org /rdv4n1/momin.htm   (2468 words)

  
 The Communist Party of China and the 20th Congress of the CPSU
The Khrushchevite revisionist position was comprehensively and publicly stated at the 20th Congress of the C.P.S.U. in February 1956, (with appropriate ‘Greetings’ from Tito).
The historic decisions of the Twentieth Congress of the C.P.S.U. are of tremendous importance not only to the C.P.S.U. and the building of Communism in the U.S.S.R. They have opened a new stage in the world communist movement and pushed ahead its further development along Marxist-Leninist lines.
In their many internal discussions with comrades of the CPSU, leading comrades of the C.C. of the CPC also systematically set forth views on the international situation and the strategy of the international communist movement, with direct reference to the errors of the 20th Congress...’...
www.revolutionarydemocracy.org /rdv6n1/bico.htm   (7753 words)

  
 Origin of Differences Between CPSU and CPC
The revisionism of the leadership of the CPSU grew.
He openly stated that after the 20th Congress of the CPSU, when the leaders of the CPSU were beginning to take a "road different from that of Stalin" (that is, the road of revisionism), they still needed the support of the fraternal Parties.
The leadership of the CPSU has become increasingly anxious to collude with the Tito clique of Yugoslavia and is bent on forming a reactionary alliance with the renegade Tito to oppose all Marxist-Leninist Parties.
www.marx2mao.com /Other/OD63.html   (13701 words)

  
 20th Congress of the CPSU - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is known especially for Nikita Khrushchev's Secret Speech, which denounced the recently deceased Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.
During the morning closed session of the last day of the Congress, Khrushchev, the Communist Party Secretary, took the opportunity to give a stinging rebuke of the policies of Stalin, his late predecessor.
Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/XXth_Congress_of_the_CPSU   (276 words)

  
 Speech to 20th Congress of the C.P.S.U.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
At the Twentieth Congress of the CPSU February 24-25 1956, Khrushchev delivered a report in which he denounced Stalin’s crimes and the ‘cult of personality’; surrounding Stalin.
By social origin the basic mass of the delegates were workers (60 per cent of the voting members).
For this reason, it is inconceivable that a congress so composed would have elected a Central Committee a majority of whom would prove to be enemies of the people...
www.marxists.org /archive/khrushchev/1956/02/24-abs.htm   (2647 words)

  
 Spørgsmålet om Stalin
Before your Congress the First Secretary of your Party has promised the erection of this monument." In this letter the specific demand was made that the name of Trotsky be "engraved in letters of gold on the monument erected in honour of the victims of Stalin".
Stalin died in 1953; three years later the leaders of the CPSU violently attacked him at the 20th Congress, and eight years after his death they again did so at the 22nd Congress, removing and burning his remains.
The Open Letter of the Central Committee of the CPSU slanders our stand in adhering to Marxism-Leninism, asserting that we "are trying to impose upon other Parties the order of things, the ideology and morals, the forms and methods of leadership that flourished in the period of the personality cult".
www.rasmussen.popx.dk /spm_stalin.htm   (5961 words)

  
 Proletarian Revolution . . . Khrshchov's Revisionism
It has become familiar and has everybody's attention because Khrushchov raised it at the 20th Congress of the CPSU and rounded it into a complete system in the form of a programme at the 22nd Congress, where he pitted his revisionist views against the Marxist-Leninist views.
The more the leaders of the CPSU cover up the fact that the bourgeoisie relies on violence for its rule and spread the fairy tale of peaceful transition, which was so welcome to Dulles, the more they reveal their true colours as cronies of the imperialists in opposing revolution.
The CPSU is a large party created by Lenin and in the international communist movement it enjoys a prestige shaped by history.
www.marx2mao.com /Other/PRKR64.html   (13949 words)

  
 The Great Famine, 1932-1933
Speaking at the historic 20th Congress of the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union), its then General Secretary Mykyta Khruschov revealed the truth about his predecessor's unjustified genocide targeted at individuals, groups, and entire nations.
Such was Stalin's treatment of the millions of Ukrainian patriots who had survived fascist tortures, slavery, and other adversities of the world's biggest war.
Khruschov, who assumed the CPSU leadership after Stalin's death in 1953, finally put an end to the paranoid policy of discrimination against Ukrainians as well as other nations that had experienced the German occupation, for which we are extremely grateful to this generally controversial personality in the then political arena."
www.artukraine.com /famineart/famine33.htm   (804 words)

  
 CHNN, No 9, Autumn 2000: Responses and Comments
According to Service, foreign communist party leaders attending as observers at the CPSU 20th Congress were apparently given transcripts of the speech as they departed home.
This seems fairly compelling evidence that the Danish Party leadership did not receive a copy of the speech during or immediately after 20th Congress at the end of February 1956 or even before the Reuter telegram of 16 March 1956 which first revealed the fact of the speech's existence to the world at large.
It was at the DKP's Central Committee meeting of 21-22 April 1956 that a split in the top leadership first materialised when Aksel Larsen gave his own 'personal' highly critical report on the 20th Congress and thus broke with the principle that the political bureau always spoke with 'a single voice'.
les.man.ac.uk /chnn/CHNN09HTR.html   (480 words)

  
 On the Question of Stalin
As the train of events since the 20th Congress of the CPSU has fully shown, the complete negation of Stalin by the leadership of the CPSU has had extremely serious consequences.
In November 1961, at the conclusion of the 22nd Congress of the CPSU, the International Secretariat of the so-called Fourth International stated in a Letter to the 22nd Congress of the CPSU and Its New Central Committee that in 1937 Trotsky said a monument would be erected to the honour of the victims of Stalin.
The Open Letter of the Central Cornmittee of the CPSU slanders our stand in adhering to Marxism-Leninism, asserting that we "are trying to impose upon other Parties the order of things, the ideology and morals, the forms and methods of leadership that flourished in the period of the personality cult".
freespace.virgin.net /pep.talk/RedFlag.htm   (5955 words)

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