Participants in a roundtable discussion, Results of the 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Political Experts Speaking, from left: Vladimir Petukhov, Candidate of Philosophy and staff member of the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Boris Slavin, Doctor of Philosophy and staff member of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union's Communist Party, and Eduard Andreyev, Doctor of Philosophy and chief research associate at the Institute for Social and Political Research of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.