Progress Publishers, Moscow (cover designer: unknown), "First Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba, Havana, December 17-22, 1975 (Collection of Documents)," 1976. Offset print, book.

First Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba - Historical Documents (1976)

A rare Soviet-published English edition documenting the historic First Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC), held December 17-22, 1975. Published by Progress Publishers in Moscow and imported to the United States by Imported Publications, Inc. of Chicago, this collection represents a watershed moment in Cuban revolutionary history.

The cover features the bold PCC logo—stylized Cuban flags rising from silhouetted raised fists and masses, symbolizing popular revolutionary power. The congress marked the formal institutionalization of Cuba's Communist Party, sixteen years after the revolution's triumph. This first congress established the party's structure, ideology, and role as "the leading and guiding force of society" in building socialism.

The volume contains speeches by Fidel Castro and Raúl Castro, the Central Committee Report, and messages from Soviet leadership including Leonid Brezhnev, documenting Cuba's alignment with the Soviet bloc during the Cold War. This congress confirmed Cuba's commitment to Marxist-Leninist ideology and cemented the relationship between the Cuban Revolution and international communism.