28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
The 28th
- Mikhail Gorbachev was reelected General Secretary with a 3411 to 1116 vote. Gorbachev's challenger, Teimuraz Avaliani, received 501 votes with 4020 opposing.[2][3]
- Vladimir Ivashko was elected deputy general secretary, defeating Yegor Ligachyov.[3]
- A new Party Statute was passed, which formalized the end of the monopoly of power of the CPSU announced at the previous Party Congress.
- The New Union Treaty project was proposed by Gorbachev.
- Boris Yeltsin and some others resigned from the party after the "Democratic Platform" group failed to advance the transition to a parliamentary structure of the organization, while the "Marxist Platform" failed to oppose Gorbachev's reforms of "healing socialism by capitalism".
- The congress failed to issue the next Program, and issued only a Program Declaration.
The first
Various organizations claiming to be the successor of the CPSU have held congresses continuing the numbering established by the CPSU and its predecessors. The
References
- S2CID 147379052.
- ^ "Gorbachev Reelected as Party Chief". Los Angeles Times. Associated Press. 10 July 1990.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8157-3060-6.
- ^ "Руководство СКП-КПСС". Archived from the original on 31 December 2004. Retrieved 18 February 2008.
Further reading
- Jonathan Harris. Subverting the System: Gorbachev's Reform of the Party's Apparat, 1986-1991. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005. ISBN 978-0-7425-2679-2; Ch. 6: Towards the 28th Congress of the CPSU: 1990, pp. 107–120
- Bill Keller, EVOLUTION IN EUROPE; Soviet Party: Hazy Future. The New York Times, July 13, 1990. Accessed October 18, 2008
External links
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