The Sixteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U (B)

It was held in the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow from June 26 to July 13, 1930. The Congress was attended by 1,268 delegates with voting rights and 891 specially invited delegates with consultative rights, representing 1,260,874 party members and 711,609 candidate members.

The Congress discussed the Political and Organizational Reports of the Party Central Committee, the summary report of the Central Control Commission, the Report of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Delegation to the Comintern, Completion of the Five-Years Plan for the Industry, The Kolkhoz Movement and the Rise of the Agriculture, and the Report on the Tasks of the Trade Unions in the Reconstruction Period. The Congress unanimously approved the political line and work of the Central Committee of the Party and recommended that the Central Committee continue to ensure the speed of socialist construction in the future, strive for the completion of the five-year plan in four years, and steadfastly carry out a full-scale socialist offensive on all fronts and the elimination of the rich peasant class on the basis of total collectivization. The Congress pointed out the worldwide historical significance of the transformation in the development of agriculture, thanks to that the collective peasantry became a real and solid pillar of the Soviet power. The Congress entrusted the Central Committee of the Party to continue its unwavering policy of peace and to consolidate the defense forces of the Soviet Union. The Congress gave instructions on the full development of heavy industry and the construction of a powerful coal and steel base in the eastern parts of the USS.R., on the transformation of the work of all mass organizations, and the strengthening of the role of trade unions in socialist construction, on attracting all workers and working people to the socialist contest. The Congress thoroughly exposed right-wing opportunism as an agent of the rich peasants in the party and declared that the views of the right-wing opposition were incompatible with the membership of the Communist Party (B). The Congress charged the Party organizations at all levels to intensify their struggle against chauvinist and local nationalist tendencies in the national question and the reconciliation of these two tendencies, and to resolutely implement Lenin's national policy of ensuring the broad development of the culture of all peoples of the USS.R. in its national form and socialist content. The Sixteenth Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolshevik) went into history as the Congress of the full-scale socialist offensive on all fronts, eliminating the rich peasant class and achieving total collectivization. Stalin made the “Political Report of the Central Committee to the Sixteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U.(B)” at the Congress on June 27, and concluded the report on July 2, 1930.

The Congress elected a central committee composed of 71 members and 67 candidate members, a central Control Commission composed of 187 members, and a Central Auditory Commission composed of 13 members.