In 1973, the the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the entire international communist and working-class movement celebrated the 70th anniversary of the historic 2nd Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party.
At that congress a Marxist-Leninist programme was adopted-a programme of struggle to over- throw autocracy, the power of the landowners and capitalists, and to establish proletarian dictatorship as the instrument for remaking society along so- cialist lines. It marked the final victory of the Bolsheviks over the Economists 2 and struck a powerful blow at their supporters in the international Social-Democratic movement. It was a turning point in the development of the entire world work- ing-class movement.
The principles of Bolshevism triumphed at the 2nd Congress of the RSDLP. Herein lies its histo- ric significance. Bolshevism, which is synonymous with Leninism, is a creative development of the ideas of Marx and Engels in the new historical conditions. In his speech at the Lenin Centenary meeting in Moscow, Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Commu-
THE MARXIST-LENINIST PARTY- PARTY
OF THE NEW TYPE
R. Kaganova
(on the international
significance of Bolshevism)
Novosti Press Agency Publishing House
Moscow, 1974
