📅 17 April 1923
The Twelfth Congress debated the economy, party organization and the national question. Delegates heard warnings about Great Russian chauvinism and discussed how the party should build national cadres...
📅 25 April 1923
The Congress closed with a resolution on the national question that called for training local cadres, using national languages in administration and countering Russian chauvinism. Korenizatsiya...
📅 27 April 1925
The Fourteenth Party Conference debated the pace of industrial development and the prospects for building socialism within the USSR. Stalin and his allies argued that socialism could be built in one...
📅 2 December 1927
The Fifteenth Congress opened amid the defeat of the Left and United Opposition. Delegates debated agricultural procurement, industrialization and the future of NEP. The Congress became a turning...
📅 19 December 1927
The Congress concluded after expelling the opposition and adopting a course toward expanded collectivization and industrial development. It did not itself complete collectivization; implementation...
📅 25 February 1956
At a closed session of the Twentieth Congress, Khrushchev denounced Stalin’s cult of personality and some abuses of power. The speech opened limited space for public criticism and return from exile...
📅 28 June 1988
The conference debated political reforms, including a new legislature and more competitive elections. These measures weakened the party’s monopoly in public life but left the Union’s national question...
📅 16 March 1921
The congress adopted a resolution prohibiting organized factions within the Communist Party. Leaders presented it as a temporary response to crisis; it also curtailed internal dissent and helped...
📅 21 March 1921
The Tenth Party Congress approved a shift from forced grain requisition toward a tax in kind, allowing peasants to sell surplus. NEP was a tactical retreat from War Communism amid economic collapse...
📅 18 March 1919
Lenin presented and defended a new programme that addressed state power, the peasantry, and nationalities. Delegates debated how to carry the revolution across a multi-national former empire; the...
📅 1 August 1903
At the Second Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, disputes over membership, leadership, and editorial control produced the Bolshevik–Menshevik division. Trotsky opposed Lenin’s...
📅 17 March 1919
He defended the use of former tsarist officers under political supervision and the creation of a regular army. The debate illustrates how civil-war exigencies shaped state institutions and narrowed...
📅 15 December 1986
The Communist Party of Vietnam convened its Sixth National Congress in Hanoi. Delegates debated a severe economic crisis and the limits of centralized planning. The opening of the congress began the...
📅 18 December 1986
At the close of the congress, the party adopted a reform course later known as Đổi Mới. The changes expanded market mechanisms and household production while retaining one-party rule. Their effects...
📅 27 June 1991
The congress approved a platform and leadership changes that framed continued renovation and socialist development. Its decisions reflected Vietnam’s effort to adapt after war, economic crisis, and...
📅 28 June 1996
The Communist Party opened its Eighth Congress in Hanoi and reviewed a decade of Đổi Mới. Delegates discussed industrialization and modernization while maintaining one-party rule. The agenda reflected...
📅 1 July 1996
The congress concluded after setting priorities for the next development period and continuing economic renovation. Its program sought to expand production and international integration under...
📅 19 April 2001
The Communist Party opened its Ninth Congress in Hanoi to assess Đổi Mới and set development goals. The congress took place as Vietnam pursued deeper international integration and prepared to...
📅 22 April 2001
The congress concluded after adopting a program for economic and social development. It sought to move Vietnam beyond underdevelopment and toward industrialization while preserving the party’s leading...
📅 25 April 2006
The congress concluded after electing a new Central Committee and adopting its political and socioeconomic program. Its agenda linked industrialization and poverty reduction to continued market...
📅 12 January 2011
The congress opened with more than a thousand delegates and considered the party’s platform, development strategy, and political report. Its deliberations show the continuing centrality of the...
📅 19 January 2011
The congress concluded after adopting its resolution and selecting Nguyễn Phú Trọng as General Secretary. The new leadership framed development and national independence as linked projects. The...
📅 1 February 2021
The congress elected a Central Committee and re-elected Nguyễn Phú Trọng. Its state vision of development does not represent every Vietnamese person’s views.
