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

March 10 to 21, 1939, held in Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow. The Congress was attended by 1,569 delegates with voting rights and 466 specially invited delegates who have consultative rights, representing 1,588,852 party members and 888,814 candidate members.

The Congress heard and discussed the summary reports of the central organs of the Party, the Third Five-Year Plan for the Development of the National Economy of the USS.R., as well as the Issue of Changes in the Rules of the C.P.S.U. (B). The Congress noted that the socialist mode of production had become dominant, that essentially socialism had been built in the USS.R. and consequently the country had entered a new period of development: to conclude the construction of socialist society. The Congress elected a new Central Committee composed of 71 members and 68 alternate members and a Central Auditing Commission composed of 50 members.