Structure of Production in the USSR and Foreign Countries

Interindustry balance sheets characterizing the interrelations between branches of material production provide extensive material for studying the structure of production and the influence exerted on it by technical progress. The structure of social production depends on the level of development of the productive forces and on the nature of the social system of the given country. It is out of the question, therefore, to think in terms of copying the structure of production of the more technically developed capitalist countries in our long-term plans. However, a discerning study of the production structures of the capitalist countries, chiefly those with a high level of technical development, is of considerable interest to planning personnel.