Non-capitalist Path of Development, the historical process of the transition of countries from precapitalist formations to a socialist system, bypassing the stage of developed capitalism. The possibility of the non-capitalist path of development was theoretically substantiated by Marx, Engels, and Lenin and practically embodied in the Soviet Central Asian republics, in many regions of Siberia and in the USSR’s northern regions, and also in the Mongolian People’s Republic. "With the aid of the proletariat of the advanced countries,” wrote Lenin, "backward countries can go over to the Soviet system and, through certain stages of development, to communism, without having to pass through the capitalist stage" (V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, Vol.31, p. 244). The Great October Socialist Revolution was one of the basic historical conditions that created the practical opportunity for a number of countries to adopt a non-capitalist path of development. The very existence and internationalist policy of the world socialist system, disinterested aid from the more developed nations building socialism and communism, guarantee the independent non-capitalist development of the newly free countries. The historical experience of the transition to socialism bypassing capitalism, amassed in the Soviet Union, the Mongolian People’s Republic and some other countries is invaluable for the developing countries. This process may take different forms depending on the historical and socio-economic conditions and the specifics of national development. Among the main tasks facing such countries are: to find, with due consideration of the socialist prospects, the shortest path for a speedy and most radical transformation of the economy, development of democracy and culture, transformation of countries into industrially developed and economically and politically independent ones. The fulfilment of these tasks makes it possible to create certain material and political requisites for a subsequent transition to building socialism. The number of countries that have taken a non-capitalist path of development, or socialist-oriented states, has grown. These countries are, of course, developing along the progressive road in different ways and under difficult conditions. But the main trends are similar. Among them are: gradual elimination of the influence of the imperialist monopolies and the position of local big bourgeoisie and feudal lords; restriction of the activities of foreign capital; the state’s seizure of the commanding heights in the economy and a transition to planned development of the productive forces; encouragement of the cooperative movement in the countryside; promotion of the role of the working masses in the life of society; gradual consolidation of the state machine with local personnel devoted to the people; ensuring of the anti-imperialist course of these countries’ foreign policies, with their revolutionary parties which express the interests of the broad masses of the working people gaining in strength. The possibility of countries developing along a non- capitalist path is based on objective laws of social development and has nothing to do with the "export of revolution”. The path of development chosen is the internal affair of the peoples of the developing countries themselves. The non-capitalist path of development, taken by a group of countries after shaking off colonialism, is supported by a consistent struggle of the popular masses and the broad general democratic movement under the guidance of the progressive revolutionary- democratic forces, and meets the interests of the majority of the people. The Soviet Union and the other socialist states render 254 all-round support to developing countries in their struggle to realise their just aspirations, and to eliminate imperialist exploitation completely. The new alignment of forces in the world opens up new possibilities for the non-capitalist path of development.