The XXVI Congress of the CPSU once again emphasized that the leading force, social intelligence and social heart of the economic, political, social and spiritual progress of socialism was and remains the working class1 . "The revolution placed the working class at the center of the modern epoch," it was noted at the June (1983) Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU, " and released the gigantic creative energy of the working people. This is where the best features of the Soviet character come from. " 2 The Soviet working class was the first in the history of the exploited classes to become the leader of society. For the first time in history, a class that took state power into its own hands not only did not cease to be a direct producer of material goods, but also used this power to strengthen and enhance its role as the main productive force of society. Radically transforming the system of social production of material goods, their exchange and distribution, he simultaneously rebuilt the spiritual production, distribution and exchange of cultural values. He changed himself both as a subject and as an object of history. The objective prerequisite for these processes was the elimination of private capitalist ownership and the establishment of public ownership of the means of production, and the main socio - political factor in the formation of a new social image of the 3 Soviet worker lies in the process of socialist construction itself. It is in labor that "a person not only creates material values, but also forges his best abilities, hardens his will, develops creative forces, and asserts himself as a citizen" 4 . The working class, K. U. Chernenko, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, emphasized at a meeting with workers of the Moscow metallurgical plant "Hammer and Sickle", is "at the forefront of the struggle to accelerate the development of the country's economy" .5In this e ... Читать далее