26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
CPSU CONGRESS
26th Congress of the CPSU
The 26th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (26th Congress of the CPSU, ) opened on February 23, 1981, with a five-hour address by the General Secretary of the Communist Party and the chairman (president) of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Leonid Brezhnev. This was the last Congress for Brezhnev, who died in 1982.