Industrial training in the Soviet Union.

Prior to World War II, an often made observation on the Soviet economy was that its industrial development was crippled by the lack of trained factory labor. In the present decade, fear based on an opposite belief is frequently expressed: that Russia is surpassing the United States in the training of industrial manpower. In this article the Soviet program of industrial training is examined. Lack of benchmarks makes it difficult to evaluate the success of the Russian program, though there can be no doubt that it has contributed importantly to the economic strides made by the Soviet economy in recent years. (Author's abstract courtesy EBSCO.)