28th Congress of the CPSU

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28th Congress of the CPSU (July 2, 1990—July 13, 1990) was held in Moscow. It was held a year ahead of the traditional schedule and turned out to be the last CPSU congress in the history of the party.

• Mikhail Gorbachev was reelected General Secretary; Vladimir Ivashko was elected his deputy (the position which allowed him to attempt to seize the post during the August 1991 coup).
• A new Party Statute was passed, which formalized the end of the monopoly of power of the CPSU announced at the previous Party Conference.
• Boris Yeltsin and some others resign from the party after the "CPSU Democratic Platform" group failed to advance the transition to a parliamentary structure of the organization, while the "Marxist Platform" failed to oppose Gorbachev's reforms of "healing the socialism by capitalism".
• The congress failed to issue the next Program, and issued only a Program Declaration.

The first Plenum of the new CPSU Central Committee was held July 13-14, and with the exception of Gorbachev, a completely new Politburo was elected.

In 1992, the so-called 29th Restorative CPSU Congress was held; it declared the CPSU reinstated (see Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1992)).

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