Extraordinary Twenty-first Congress of the C.P.S.U.

Extraordinary Twenty-first Congress of the C.P.S.U. between January 27 and February 5, 1959, it was held in the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow. The Congress was attended by 1,261 full delegates with voting rights plus 106 specially invited delegates with speaking rights, representing 7,622,356 party members and 616,775 candidate members. Delegations from 72 foreign communist and workers’ parties were present. The General Assembly listened to and discussed the report delivered by Khrushchev (the first Secretary of the C.P.S.U. Central Committee and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union); control figures on the economic development of the USS.R. from 1959 to 1965. Finally, the Congress made a resolution on this report delivered to the Congress. Since this was an extraordinary congress, there were no elections for the Party's central organs.

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