1953-1958 - a new, significant period in the life of the Communist Party, the entire Soviet people, in the struggle to complete the construction of socialism. The largest historical event of this period was the XX Party Congress, the decisions of which had a huge impact on the life of the party, the development of Soviet socialist society, and the international communist movement. The party openly and sharply criticized the personality cult of Stalin, generated by the cult of error and perversion, launched a struggle to eliminate its consequences. She rebuilt party work on the basis of the consistent implementation and further creative development of the principles of democratic centralism, the collectivity of leadership, criticism and self-criticism and other Leninist principles and norms of party life. As a result, the party's ties with the masses strengthened, its leading and guiding role in the Soviet state increased.