The Twenty-Fourth Congress of the C.P.S.U.

The Twenty-fourth Congress of the C.P.S.U. was held in the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow between March 30 to April 9, 1971. The Congress was attended by 4,740 delegates with a casting voting rights and 223 delegates with consultative rights. The Congress represented 14,455,321 communists, of whom 13,810,089 were members and 645,232 candidate members. The Congress was also attended by 102 delegations from communist and workers’ parties, left Socialist parties and the national democratic parties from 91 countries.

The agenda of the Congress included deliberation of the report of the Central Committee of the C.P.S.U. , delivered by L. I. Brezhnev; the report of the Central Auditing Commission of the C.P.S.U. delivered by G. F. Sizov; a report on the Directives of the Twenty-fourth Congress of the C.P.S.U. on the five-year plan for the development of the USS.R. national economy for 1971–1975, delivered by A. N. Kosygin; and adopted corresponding resolutions on the above reports.

The Congress adopted a decision to partially revise the Rules of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The Congress delivered a statement titled Freedom and Peace for the Peoples of Indochina! and the statement For a Just and Stable Peace in the Near East! The Congress elected the new Central Committee of the C.P.S.U. , composed of 241 members and 155 alternate members (Brezhnev was elected General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee), as well as the Central Auditing Commission of the C.P.S.U. , composed of 81 members.