p SANBAGIYN SOSORBARAM

p SECRETARY OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE
MONGOLIAN PEOPLE’S REVOLUTIONARY PARTY
AND MINISTER OF CULTURE OF THE MONGOLIAN
PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC

p Dear comrades, we are deeply gratified that this conference has been convened during the celebrations held on the 60th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, and that it has on its agenda "The October Revolution and the Present Epoch”, which is a question of paramount significance and vital interest.

p The festivities in the great Land of Soviets, crowned by the jubilee meeting in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses and the vivid and impressive speech of Comrade Leonid Brezhnev at that meeting, have made an indelible impression on the whole world.

p This speech outlined the far-reaching prospects for humanity’s development under the banner of the October Revolution and dealt with the results of the revolutionary regeneration of the world after October 1917, and the tremendous achievements scored by the Land of Sovietsthe pioneer of building socialism and communism. This impressive document is an outstanding contribution of the CPSU and Comrade Leonid Brezhnev personally to the development of Marxist-Leninist thought. It gives the peoples of the world confidence in their future, in the 157 success of their struggle for socialism, peace, and democracy.

p The opening speech of Comrade Mikhail Suslov and the speech of Comrade Boris Ponomarev at this conference also contained a comprehensive analysis and a concrete description of the world historic significance of the Great October Revolution.

p The central topic at this conference is an exceedingly important subject-the international significance of the experience of the CPSU. The experience of the struggle of the great Party of Lenin is our common heritage of inestimable value. It is an international achievement of the world communist movement. The Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party, like the other fraternal parties, sees it as the cornerstone of its ideological, political, and organisational growth, and a guarantee of success for its many-sided activities. This is borne out clearly by the more than half-century-long history of the MPRP, which became a ruling party not quite four years after the victorious October Revolution, the history of its struggle for the establishment of a new, independent Mongolia, and for carrying out democratic and socialist transformations.

p The historic experience of the CPSU, the most seasoned contingent of the international communist movement, is a powerful and effective weapon in the hands of the peoples in their struggle for socialism, for the revolutionary transformation of the world. In the course of its long history, the MPRP has become firmly convinced that, in spite of the different conditions in which Marxist-Leninist parties have to act, the experience of the CPSU is applicable for each of them. This experience is of all-embracing, international significance, being a tangible embodiment of the objective laws of the building of socialism and communism.

p Attempts to minimise or altogether ignore the international significance of the experience of the CPSU, to 158 declare it to be a merely national phenomenon, to work out different models of socialism that have nothing in common with the objective laws governing the development of society, can, in our view, do nothing but grave harm to our movement as a whole and to some individual parties. An obvious example are the voluntaristic actions of the Chinese leaders who, adopting Mao Tse-tung’s narrow nationalistic and great-power chauvinist conceptions, and distorting the Marxist-Leninist teaching on the general objective laws of the building of socialism, have become rabidly anti-communist.

p As for the diverse circumstances under which Communist and Workers’ parties have to act, they are inevitable and should not serve as a pretext for any wholesale repudiation of the international significance of the experience of the CPSU.

p Take, for example, the historical experience of the Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party which has managed in a comparatively short time to lead its country out of its backward medieval state to become one of the countries building socialism.

p The experience of the MPRP shows that in poorly developed countries revolutionary-democratic parties, in close contact and co-operation with the world communist movement, in alliance with the working class of the Soviet Union, can assimilate the ideas of scientific communism and become the Marxist-Leninist vanguard of the masses, directing the country’s development along the socialist path.

p The history of the MPRP is above all a history of the creative implementation of Marxism-Leninism in the specific conditions of our country. It is a history of studying and employing the experience of the CPSU, taking into account the concrete historical Mongolian realities. The Mongolian people have the privilege of being one of the first to have embarked on the non-capitalist way, making the transition from feudalism to socialism along 159 the path opened by the October Socialist Revolution and the science of Marxism-Leninism. This was not easy.

p The experience and assistance of the great Party of Lenin and effective co-operation with it were decisive for the ideological and political maturity and better organisation of the MPRP. They were decisive for defining its general line which enabled it to find the most effective ways and means of revolutionising Mongolian society and carrying on its many-sided organising and political work, and they were decisive for the struggle against all sorts of leftists and rightists. Our Party has from the start learned from the Party of Lenin the methods of steadfastly translating Marxist-Leninist theory into daily practice, the art and science of working out effective strategy and tactics, the ability creatively to approach urgent problems, and skilfully conduct its policy among the masses.

p The establishment and further consolidation of the MPRP proceeded on the basis of the general objective laws and principles of a Communist party’s development. As it studied and learned to apply all that was valuable and useful in the practice of the CPSU, our Party amassed great experience in administering society. Systematic study and use of the experience of the CPSU and other fraternal parties for promoting the role of the masses in fulfilling vital tasks involved in the building of socialism, in directing the activities of the state and public organisations and enhancing their role in administering the state has become a tradition and a major source of growth and action capacity of the MPRP and its organisations.

p In tackling the tasks of transition from feudalism to socialism by-passing capitalism, the MPRP was guided by Marxist-Leninist principles and relied on the experience gained by the the CPSU in solving the problems of the revolutionary transformation of the Soviet Central Asian republics. In that stage, the democratic objectives of the 160 revolution were successfully attained and the foundations of socialism laid.

p The Mongolian People’s Republic underwent major socio-economic changes. Modern industry was launched and developed, individual arat households were brought into socialist co-operative organisations, and a cultural revolution took place. These changes were a concrete manifestation of the general objective laws governing the building of socialism, which had been confirmed in practice first by the peoples of the USSR and later on by other fraternal countries. They led to a process under which a national working class and intelligentsia emerged and grew. As a result, the Mongolian People’s Republic has grown into an agrarian-industrial socialist country with a uniform socialist economic system.

p Thus, the objective laws which operated in the Soviet Union when it was building socialism manifested themselves again in the revolutionary practice of the Mongolian People’s Republic. It is significant that the chief results produced by the operation of these natural processes, which manifested themselves under different conditions and at different periods, are essentially similar, resembling each other both in content and form.

p In the MPR the study and application of the experience of the CPSU in building the new life follow these main lines: 

p —the efforts of the CPSU to bring about the victorious Great October Socialist Revolution, to establish and strengthen people’s power, the world’s first socialist state, and to defend and multiply the historic gains of the socialist revolution; 

p —the struggle of the CPSU for the actual realisation of Marxism-Leninism and consistent implementation of Lenin’s plan for building socialism, for mobilising the constructive energy and creative efforts of the masses in order to change the old world, for the country’s planned development, for industrialisation, collectivisation/ and a socialist 161 cultural revolution, for the development of socialist democracy, for moulding the new man, and establishing the Soviet socialist way of life; 

p —the experience of the CPSU, a model for the struggle to promote proletarian internationalism, friendship, and co-operation among nations, and for the struggle to establish lasting peace on earth.

p Everything the CPSU does is motivated by constant concern for the wellbeing of the people, for their peaceful life and work.

p As the leading and guiding role of our Party in the life of society increases, it becomes still more important to study and apply the experience of the CPSU. The 17th Congress of the MPRP set the task of furthering co-operation of the MPR with the fraternal socialist countries, the Soviet Union first of all, in the economic, political, cultural, and ideological fields.

p All this, naturally, implies that we must develop new forms of co-operation with the fraternal parties and study and apply their wide-ranging experience to greater effect. It is a question, above all, of extending further our study of the world historic experience of the Land of Soviets in building communism, of increasing direct contacts between related fields in the MPR and the USSR, and of improving the forms and methods of co-operation.

p The national economic plans of the Soviet Union and Mongolia are being more closely co-ordinated. New forms of co-operation, such as direct contacts between related ministries, departments, and other economic organisations of the two countries are becoming more widespread.

p All aimaks and towns in Mongolia have direct contacts with regions and towns in the Soviet Union. Our aimaks and the Soviet autonomous republics and regions conclude agreements on co-operation and share working experience. This form of co-operation enables our Party, state, and public organisations to study in depth and creatively apply Soviet experience in economic and cultural development. 162 and to get better acquainted with the life and wonderful achievements of Soviet people.

p We also practise other forms of co-operation, including reciprocal visits, meetings of leaders of our parties and states, exchange of delegations, and so on.

p The MPRP considers it a paramount duty to go on studying and applying creatively the world historic experience of the great Party of Lenin. The MPRP Programme says: "The MPRP, as before, will pay close attention to the extensive study and creative employment of the experience gained by the fraternal Communist parties, in the first place, of the world historic experience of the most tested contingent and universally recognised vanguard of the world communist movement-the Communist Party of the Soviet Union-in building a new society, fighting imperialist reaction, and promoting human progress.”

p The conclusion to be drawn from what I have said is this: the path of the MPRP and the results achieved along this path fully confirm the fact that the attitude towards the CPSU and application of its world historic experience have been and are the main yardstick of fidelity to Marxism-Leninism and proletarian internationalism and the earnest of our Party’s successful leadership of the country. Comrade Tsedenbal said that "our Party has always learned and will continue to learn from the great CPSU, whose world historic experience is a real school of Marxism-Leninism, a school of proletarian internationalism”.

p In conclusion, allow me, on behalf of the Central Committee of the MPRP and our Party and scientific institutions, to thank the Central Committee of the CPSU, the organisers of this important international scientific conference on the glorious anniversary of the Great October Revolution, for the invitation to attend this conference.

I would also like to take this pleasant opportunity to wish the Communists and working people of the Soviet Union fresh success in their communist construction for the happiness and prosperity of the peoples of the world!