Evaluating the Social Results of Scientific and Technical Progress

Our country has built a developed socialist society that is characterized by a high level of development of material production, science, and culture. As it progressively develops and improves, the prerequisites are created for the gradual transformation of mature socialism into communism. The present five-year plan is an important stage along this road. Its principal task â formulated in the materials of the Twenty-Fourth Congress of the CPSU â consists in bringing about a substantial rise in the material and cultural living standard of the people and in securing a significant rise in the well-being of the working people. Such is the highest goal of social production under socialism.