19th All-Union Conference of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

1988 Soviet Union Communist Party conference February 2018 thumb The 19th All-Union Conference of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was a party conference held by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 28 June to 1 July 1988.Russian-Turkish Relations from the First World War to the Present Vefa Kurban 2017 Cambridge Scholars Publishing 978-1443869263 https://books.google.com/books?id=6znZDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA194 194 The conference was attended by 4,991 delegates. The conference The General Secretary, Mikhail Gorbachev, declared in his opening speech that political reform was the key issue.Garthoff Raymond L. The Great Transition: American-Soviet Relations and the End of the Cold War https://archive.org/details/greattransitiona00gart registration 1994 Brookings Institution Washington, D.C. 0-8157-3060-8 360–361Key Sections of Gorbachev Speech Given to Party Conference https://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/29/world/key-sections-of-gorbachev-speech-given-to-party-conference.html?pagewanted=all The New York Times 15 September 2017 29 June 1988 Gorbachev wanted to achieve the "democratization of the life of the state and society", and wanted the Soviet Union to "move along the path of the creation of a socialist state under the rule of law".The Soviet Union as a State under the Rule of Law: An Overview John Quigley 1990 Cornell International Law Journal 23 2 https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cilj/vol23/iss2/2/ 0010-8812 205 The Conference called for elections for the governmental soviets at all levels, with secret ballots and multiple candidacies, and it established the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union. Although Gorbachev had to compromise on some of his several objectives because of conservative resistance, the conference was a significant victory for Gorbachev. External links 19th All-Union Conference of the CPSU. Documents and Materials in PDF format References Category:1988 in the Soviet Union Category:History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Category:Perestroika