In the historical Declaration of the Conference of the representatives of Communist and Workers' Parties of socialist countries it is emphasized that the basic content of our epoch is the transition from capitalism to socialism begun by the Great October Socialist Revolution in Russia.

Forty years ago, in March and April, 1918, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin wrote a work of a programmatic character, "Next Tasks of the Soviet Power," in which a concrete plan of socialist construction was drawn up. This plan was based on the laws of the transition from capitalism to socialism discovered...