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. The Congress of the CPSU was the gathering of the delegates of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and its predecessors. ... Jump to: navigation, search July 2 is the 183rd day of the year (184th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 182 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search July 13 is the 194th day (195th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 171 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Moscow (Russian: Москва́, Moskva, IPA:   listen?) is the capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva. ... The Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( Russian: Коммунисти́ческая Па́ртия Сове́тского Сою́за = КПСС) was the name used by the successors of the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party from 1952 to 1991, but the wording Communist Party was present in the partys name since 1918 when...

• Mikhail Gorbachev was reelected General Secretary; Vladimir Ivashko was elected his deputy (the position which allowed him to attempt to seize the poser during the ).
• A new Party Statute was passed, which formalized the endof the monopoly of power by 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 Gorbaghev's reforms of "healing the socialism by capitalism".
• The congress failed to issue the next Program, and issued only a Program Declaration.

The frist Plenum of the new CPSU Central Committee was held July 13-14, and with the exception of Gorbachev, a completely new Politburo was elected. Jump to: navigation, search Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachyov (Gorbachev) listen [â–¶] (Russian: ; pronunciation: ) (born March 2, 1931), was leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. ... The term General Secretary (alternatively First Secretary) denotes a leader of various unions, parties or associations. ... ... Jump to: navigation, search Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin listen ( ♫) (Russian: Борис Николаевич Ельцин) (born February 1, 1931) was President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. ... Jump to: navigation, search The color red and particularly the red flag are traditional symbols of Socialism. ... Jump to: navigation, search In common usage capitalism refers to an economic system in which all or most of the means of production are privately owned and operated, and where investment and the production, distribution and prices of commodities (goods and services) are determined privately in a free market, rather... Plenum may refer to: the antithesis of a vacuum; in other words, completely filled space. ... The Central Committee, abbreviated in Russian as ЦК, Tseka, was the highest body of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). ... Politburo is short for Political Bureau. ...

In 1992, the so-called XXIX Restorative CPSU Congress was held which declared the CPSU reinstated, see Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1992).