p The C.P.S.U.—the great party of Lenin—has held its 24th Congress, which turns a new page in the history of the victorious march of the first land of socialism towards the summit of civilisation—communism. Looking back at the road the Party has travelled since the 23rd Congress one can say without exaggeration that this phase will go down in the history of our Party as an outstanding landmark in the Soviet people’s creative efforts under the allconquering banner of Marxism-Leninism.

p In consistently carrying out the historic decisions of the 23rd Congress, the Communist Party launched truly stupendous undertakings in all spheres of socialist society’s material and spiritual life. The effectiveness of Lenin’s line aimed at building communism in the U.S.S.R. is abundantly demonstrated in the life-giving role of the Party in the political and economic fields, in science and education, in culture and public health, in the development of socialist democracy, and in the steady improvement in the material and spiritual welfare of the people.

The road which the Party has travelled between its congresses is crowned with such outstanding events of worldwide significance as the 150th anniversary of the birth of the founders of scientific communism—Karl Marx and Frederick Engels; the 50th anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution; the centenary of V. I. Lenin, founder of the Communist Party and of the world’s first socialist state—the U.S.S.R.; and the International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties. All this was a striking manifestation of the life-affirming force of the ideas of Marxism-Leninism and of the continued international consolidation of the world’s revolutionary forces that are fighting under the banner of scientific communism.