27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

27th Congress of the CPSU (February 25, 1986—March 6, 1986) was held in Moscow. It was held after the deaths of Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko. Mikhail Gorbachev was the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU. Congress gathered 4993 delegates.

On agenda:

• CC CPSU Report and the Party objectives
• New Party Statute release
• Political report of CC CPSU
• CPSU Central Revisional Commission report
• Report About the economic and social development of the USSR on 1986-1990 and in 2000 perspective
• Elections of the central Party organs

This Congress became the penultimate in the history of the CPSU.