ABSTRACT
The Twenty-second Party Congress, which opened at Moscow in October 1961, was intended to concentrate most of its efforts on a discussion of two instruments for molding the Soviet future-the draft of the new party program and the revised Party Rules. At the congress the muddy waters of Soviet history were stirred once again by new revelations concerning the Great Purge of the 1930s. The discussion of the new Party Rules at the congress looked to a brighter future. While the new Party Rules looked to the immediate future, the party program approved by the Twenty-second Congress outlined the general course of Soviet domestic affairs for the following twenty years. There was perhaps less that smacked of Utopianism in Soviet prognostications for the industrial future of Russia over the following twenty years. There was a ghost at the feast of the Twenty-second Congress.
