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

The Twenty-fifth Congress of the C.P.S.U. was held in the Great Hall of the Kremlin, in Moscow between February 24 to March 5, 1976. The congress was attended by 4,998 delegates, representing 15,058,017 party members and 636.170 candidate members. Delegations from 103 foreign Communist and workers’ parties and 96 delegates from National Democratic and left-wing Socialist parties have attended the Congress.

The agenda was: (1) Report of the party’s Central Committee and the immediate tasks of the party in domestic and foreign policy (delivered by L. I. Brezhnev); (2) Report of the Party’s Central Auditing Commission (delivered by G. F. Sizov); (3) Report on the guidelines for the development of the national economy of the USS.R. for the period 1976–1980 (delivered by A. N. Kosygin), and adopted corresponding resolutions on these reports. The Congress issued a statement entitled Freedom to the prisoners of imperialism and reaction! The Congress elected a Central Committee composed of 287 members and 139 alternate members (Brezhnev was elected General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee) and the Central Control Commission consisting of 85 members.