The Twentieth Congress of the C.P.S.U.

The Twentieth Congress of the C.P.S.U. was held in Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow between February 14 to 25, 1956. The congress was attended by 1,349 delegates with voting rights and 81 specially invited delegates who had consultative rights, representing 6,795,896 party members and 4,609 candidate members. The Congress was also attended by 55 representatives from foreign communist and workers' parties. The Congress discussed the Report of the Central Committee of the C.P.S.U. , delivered by N. S. Khrushchev; the Report of the Central Auditing Commission of the C.P.S.U. , delivered by P. G. Moskatov; the Report of the Directives of the Twentieth Congress of the C.P.S.U. on the sixth five-year plan for development of the USS.R. national economy for the period of 1956–1960, delivered by N. A. Bulganin; and adopted the corresponding resolutions on these reports. The Congress entrusted the Central Committee of the C.P.S.U. with working out the draft of a new Policy Program. It adopted a resolution on introducing some changes in the Rules of the C.P.S.U. . In addition, in the closed session, the Congress heard a report delivered by Khrushchev entitled " On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences" and adopted a resolution on this issue.

The Congress elected the Central Committee of the C.P.S.U. , composed of 133 members and 122 alternate members (Khrushchev was elected as the first Secretary of the CPC Central Committee), and the Central Auditing Commission, composed of 63 members.