Soviet Options: 25th Party Congress

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Policy Choices for Soviet Leaders

Search for Clues to Kremlin's Future Course

The polished facade that is presented to the world by Soviet communism at its party congresses rarely reflects the actual state of conditions in world communism, in Russia generally or in the Kremlin. And that is expected to be the case when the 25th Congress, the first in five years, convenes in Moscow on Feb. 24 to hail the unity and progress achieved under the past dozen years of leadership provided by the sometimes-ailing party leader, Leonid I. Brezhnev.

Soviet-affairs specialists throughout the world will be searching for clues to pending change or continuance of the existing order—for any inkling of disagreement on such fundamental and diverse issues as detente, strategic arms control, political succession ...

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