Certain Theoretical Problems In The Leninist Nationality Policy Of The Cpsu

Abstract

In all its multifaceted activity the CPSU is guided by the truly scientific theory of Marxism-Leninism, which it simultaneously creatively develops and enriches by generalizing from the experience of revolutionary practice. During the seven decades that separate us from the Second Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP), at which the process of unification of the revolutionary Marxist organizations was completed and a party of Russia's working class was organized on the basis of the principles of political ideas and organization developed by Lenin, our Party has made a tremendous contribution to the development of Marxist-Leninist theory. A new stage in that direction was the working out of its most important and fundamental postulates in the Program of the CPSU, the decisions of the twenty-third and twenty-fourth congresses, the plenums of the Central Committee, the Party documents on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, the one-hundredth anniversary of Lenin's birth, the fiftieth anniversary of the Soviet Union, and the seventieth anniversary of the Second Congress of the RSDLP, in which profound generalizations are drawn from the experience of the building of socialism and communism, and of the contemporary worldwide revolutionary movement. In the overall set of problems the Marxist-Leninist theory of nations and nationality relationships that underlies the Leninist nationality policy of the Party has been further developed.