19th All-Union Conference of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
1988 Soviet Union Communist Party conference
The 19th All-Union Conference of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was a party conference held by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 28 June to 1 July 1988.[1] The conference was attended by 4,991 delegates.[2]
The conference
The General Secretary, Mikhail Gorbachev, declared in his opening speech that political reform was the key issue.[2][3] Gorbachev wanted to achieve the "democratization of the life of the state and society", and wanted the Soviet Union to "move along the path of the creation of a socialist state under the rule of law".[4]
The Conference called for elections for the governmental soviets at all levels, with secret ballots and multiple candidacies, and it established the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union.[2]
Although Gorbachev had to compromise on some of his several objectives because of conservative resistance, the conference was a significant victory for Gorbachev.[2]
External links
- 19th All-Union Conference of the CPSU. Documents and Materials in PDF format
References
- ^ Kurban, Vefa (2017). Russian-Turkish Relations from the First World War to the Present. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 194. ISBN 978-1443869263.
- ^ a b c d Garthoff, Raymond L. (1994). The Great Transition: American-Soviet Relations and the End of the Cold War. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution. p. 360–361. ISBN 0-8157-3060-8.
- ^ "Key Sections of Gorbachev Speech Given to Party Conference". The New York Times. 29 June 1988. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
- ^ Quigley, John (1990). "The Soviet Union as a State under the Rule of Law: An Overview". Cornell International Law Journal. 23 (2): 205. ISSN 0010-8812.
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- Ban on factions
- Group of Democratic Centralism (1919–21)
- Workers' Opposition (1920–21)
- Workers' Truth (1921–23)
- Left Opposition (1923–27)
- Workers' Group (1923–30)
- Right Opposition (1924–33)
- United Opposition (1926–27)
- Left-Right Bloc (1930)
- Union of Marxist-Leninists (1932)
- Bloc of Soviet Oppositions (1932–33)
- Anti-Party Group (1957)
- Soyuz (1990–91)
- State Committee on the State of Emergency (1991)
- Bloc of Communists and Non-Partisans
- General Jewish Labour Bund in Lithuania, Poland and Russia
- League of Russian Revolutionary Social Democracy Abroad
- League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class
- Siberian Social-Democratic Union
- Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania
- Union of Russian Social Democrats Abroad
