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nations of the world. Will we send back the threat of war? Yes, certainly.

The direct threat of a war involving the major powers has diminished. The international position of the Soviet Union has markedly improved, and through heightened trust in our country rather than an increase in might. The world situation has acquired more stability and predictability. More real is the prospect of bridling the arms race with all its consequences. The burden of military expenditure will decline.

An opportunity has opened to offset the threat to peace on a broader social and political basis than ever. A’ chance to lay the ground and have global problems resolved in conjoint efforts by the world community. The Party will actively and persistently act for these goals.

The path to a brand new state of society and a new face for socialism lies

through revolutionary restructuring and democratization in the ideological, economic and social spheres, through reform in the political system.

We must reproduce in full deep significance the principles of scientific socialism whereby a person’s actions rather than words are the main factor in material and cultural development and are the goal they set themselves.

The Party will build its policies with distinct orientation on the humanitarian principles and targets of socialism, and will seek to accomplish them by humanitarian and democratic means.

Naturally, real life and the dialectics of social development will add plenty of new aspects to current ideas about the ways to socialist reform, allowing us to clarify and enrich them. Several questions will require amendments to the Constitution and Legislation, and

some new decisions by Party Congress.

Mikhail Gorbachev speaking with the Soviet public.

Conference to adopt well-considered measures which will speed resolute onward progress and confirm perestroika as revolutionary and irreversible.

Advancing these considerations for discussion, the Central Committee anticipates active participation by Communists and all workers. This will enable the 19th All-Union Party

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