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The absence of a systematic and detailed analysis of the materials of the XVII conference of the CPSU (b) in January - February 1932 has been and remains a common place of historical literature giving unwittingly a passing character to the event. Evaluation of the conference is largely determined by the Soviet era characteristics supported by numerous attempts to rehabilitate Stalin’s policy. What was the real role of the XVII conference of the CPSU (b)? The article is devoted to this problem. The article notes that at the party forum there was (often hidden and fragmentary) analysis of a yet another year’s results of the First five-year plan, which differed sharply from the planned ones and caused deep imbalances in the national economy of the country. The conference delegates’ speeches showed the reasons of failure to fulfill the plans of the first years of the five-year plan, revealed high level of product defect. It is important, these reasons were not related to the “wrecking of old specialists”, but to objective factors such as the preservation of primitive manual labor zones generating frequent downtime in the modern technology use, as well as the low level of mastering mechanisms due to unskilled workers’ predominance. The speeches of a number of heads of industries and trusts in one or another form condemned the emphasis on quantitative indicators without mentioning the name of Stalin - the initiator of such a policy. At the same time, the delegates of the conference supported all the pro-posed resolutions endorsing the Party’s general line during the years of Great turning point; agreed not to discuss collectivization course and its consequences in the Soviet village