Communist Party of the Soviet Union program

The Program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the main document of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) setting out the strategic plans for the domestic and foreign policy of the party and the entire Soviet Union . At the times when the party was known by a different name, the program was named accordingly, e.g. B. the program of the Communist Party of Russia (Bolsheviks) etc.

First program

The first program was adopted in 1903 (the 1903 program of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party) with the main aim of abolishing tsarism and transferring power to the working class.

Second program

The second program was adopted after the October 1917 Revolution with the main aim of building socialist society in Russia ( adopted at the 8th Congress in 1919 ).

Third program

The third program was adopted in 1961 at the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union with the ambitious goal of building communism in 20 years. According to the draft program,

"The communist society in the Soviet Union had been built up by 1980, by then there was an abundance of material goods, labor productivity was twice that of the USA, and working hours were still 30 to 36 hours."

The historian Archie Brown wrote that the program would be the last authoritative document produced by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to take entirely seriously the building of a communist society ("the last authoritative document of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on the building of a communist society takes it seriously ").

Last version

The last version of the program was adopted in 1986 at the 27th Congress of the CPSU . In contrast to previous programs, the 1986 version was the revised 1961 version.

literature

Boris Meissner : The party program of the CPSU 1903 to 1961. Cologne 1962
Zarges, Axel N. and a .: Program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1961. Edited as working material. v. European Forum eV European Forum eV, Bonn, 1962
NS Khrustschow : Presentation on the program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union at the XXII. Party Congress (1961). Foreign Language Literature Publishing House , Moscow, 1961
Communist Party of the Soviet Union program: (recast); Draft. APN publishing house 1985 Moscow, 1985
Bukharin, N. and E. Preobraschensky : The ABC of Communism. Popular explanation of the program of the Communist Party of Russia (Bolsheviks). Library of the Communist International XIII. Publishing house of the Communist International, delivery by Carl Hoym Verlag, Hamburg, 1921 (see an online version )

Web links

Program of the CPSU, 27th Party Congress (1986)
The debate on the Bolsheviks' 2nd party program of 1919 (Boris Meissner)

References and footnotes

↑ Program of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), adopted at the VIII. Congress of the RKB (B) from 18-23 March 1919
↑ Chronicle of the Wall - accessed on May 27, 2019
^ Archie Brown: The Rise and Fall of Communism. 2009, Ecco, p. 256
↑ cf. Program of the CPSU, 27th Party Congress (1986)

[1] Program of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), adopted at the VIII. Congress of the RKB (B) from 18-23 March 1919

[2] Chronicle of the Wall - accessed on May 27, 2019

[3] Archie Brown: The Rise and Fall of Communism. 2009, Ecco, p. 256

[4] . Program of the CPSU, 27th Party Congress (1986)