An Account of the Party and the People: Report of the C.C. C.P.S.U. to the 22nd Congress of the Party October 17, 1961.

First edition of Nikita Khrushchev's An Account of the Party and the People; signed by him

An Account of the Party and the People: Report of the C.C. C.P.S.U. to the 22nd Congress of the Party October 17, 1961.

KHRUSHCHOV, N..

Item Number: 139342

Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1961.

First edition of the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union’s official report on the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Signed by Nikita Khrushchev on the title page. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom slipcase.

The 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was held from 17 to 31 October 1961. In fourteen days of sessions, 4,413 delegates, in addition to delegates from 83 foreign Communist parties, listened to Nikita Khrushchev and others review policy issues. At the Congress, the Sino-Soviet split hardened, especially due to Soviet de-Stalinization efforts, and it was the last Congress to be attended by the Chinese Communist Party. Other than Sino-Soviet disputes, matters dealt with at the Congress included accepting the Third Program of the CPSU and statute, and the opening of the Volgograd Hydroelectric Plant, the largest in Europe or Russia at the time. The Soviets also tested the world's most powerful thermonuclear bomb ("Tsar Bomba") in Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic Circle, creating the largest man-made explosion in history.

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