28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

28th Congress of the CPSU (July 2, 1990—July 13, 1990) was held in Moscow. It was held a year ahead of the traditional schedule and turned out to be the last CPSU congress in the history of the party.

*Mikhail Gorbachev was reelected General Secretary; Vladimir Ivashko was elected his deputy (the position which allowed him to attempt to seize the post during the Soviet coup attempt of 1991).
*A new Party Statute was passed, which formalized the end of the monopoly of power of the CPSU announced at the previous Party Conference.
*Boris Yeltsin and some others resign from the party after the "CPSU Democratic Platform" group failed to advance the transition to a parliamentary structure of the organization, while the "Marxist Platform" failed to oppose Gorbachev's reforms of "healing socialism by capitalism".
*The congress failed to issue the next Program, and issued only a Program Declaration.

The first Plenum of the new CPSU Central Committee was held July 13-14, and with the exception of Gorbachev, a completely new Politburo was elected.

In 1992, the so-called 29th Restorative CPSU Congress was held; it declared the CPSU reinstated (see Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1992)). Similarly, the Union of Communist Parties — Communist Party of the Soviet Union, established in 1993, claims to be a continuation of the CPSU, and thus continues to hold party congresses that follow the numbering of this one, the most recent being XXXIIIrd Congress [http://kprf.ru/kpss/kpss_people/] .