For the first time in the book, transcripts of meetings and a shorthand report of meetings of the August Joint Plenum of the Central Committee and the Central Control Commission of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks are introduced into scientific circulation. Theses of directives for the development of the national economy for the 19271928 economic year, resolutions of the plenum on the international situation, the work of the RCT, on the opposition and on the expulsion of L. D. Trotsky and G. E. Zinoviev from the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, platforms of the united opposition and former members of the "democratic centralism" group, minutes of the plenum meeting with all appendices to it.