This issue of the yearbook is devoted to issues of communist propaganda, trends and problems of its further development in the light of the decisions of the XXVI Party Congress, the June (1983) Plenum of the CPSU Central Committee. The articles included in it by scientists, responsible party workers, professors and teachers of the AON under the Central Committee of the CPSU highlight the most pressing issues of propaganda theory, the main directions and means of improving it in modern conditions, as well as the experience of fraternal communist and workers' parties in the field of propaganda.