![Sample our Politics & International Relations journals, sign in here to start your FREE access for 14 days]({"type":"image" , "src" : "/sda/5947/TOC-Subject-Sample-2021-Politics-International-Relations.jpg"})
Abstract
The development of socialism is characterized by improvement in the ways and means of workers' participation in the leadership of society and state. As noted in the Political Report of the CPSU Central Committee to the Twenty-seventh Party Congress, a socialist system develops successfully only when a nation itself actually governs its affairs, when millions of people participate in its political life. That is exactly what workers' self-government is, in its Leninist conception; and it comprises the essence of Soviet power.