Rules of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union is a political organization uniting citizens of the USSR on a voluntary basis for the realization of programmatic objectives based on general human values and the Communist ideal. In creatively developing the ideas of Marx, Engels, and Lenin, making use of the achievements of progressive social thought, and insisting on internationalism, its objective is to create in the country a humane and democratic socialism and to ensure conditions for the free and all-round development of the individual. The CPSU expresses and defends the interests of the working class, the peasants, the intelligentsia, and other social strata committed to the socialist choice, and strives to achieve a civic consensus and consolidation of the multinational Soviet society.