Problems of Development of the Economic Theory of Socialism (On the Two Hundred Fiftieth Anniversary of the USSR Academy of Sciences)

The two hundred fiftieth anniversary of the USSR Academy of Sciences is a great celebration for Soviet science and all its branches, and at the same time it is an occasion for summing up the accomplishments and defining the prospects for future development. The formation of economic science in the system of the Academy dates back solely to the Soviet period. The tasks of the Academy of Sciences were defined by V. I. Lenin in the very first months after the October Revolution in the >u>Draft Plan of Scientific and Technical Work>/u> [Nabrosok plana nauchno-tekhnicheskikh rabot]. Since the late 1920s scholars of economics have been elected to the Academy.