Population is a complex social subsystem within the system of "society" in a certain stage of its development. The basic elements in this subsystem are the processes of reproduction, settlement, and migration, and changes in the structure of the population. These demographic processes are...

Of late, questions pertaining to the relationship between the demographic process and employment are acquiring more and more importance. The analysis of the impact of special features of the reproduction cycle on the problem of supplying the national economy with manpower, on the age and sex...

The Decisions of the Twenty-Fourth Congress of the CPSU open up remarkable prospects for the development of Soviet society, especially in improving the living standard and well-being of the people and in more completely satisfying the growing material and cultural needs continuously increasing...

In a half-century, the material and nonmaterial powers of the Soviet multinational socialist state have grown and strengthened in a way that is without precedent. An important factor in the rapid progress of all republics of the USSR has been the equalization and rise of their economic,...

The main task posed by the Twenty-Fourth Congress of our Party is that of increasing the economic effectiveness of the national economy. This is also fully applicable to the foreign economic relations of the USSR: a most important sphere of the economy. The directives of the congress on the...

The earth's water shell occupies almost 71% of its surface. More than 94% of the hydrosphere is made up of the world's oceans, half of which is made up of Pacific Ocean.

The Integrated Program for the further intensification and improvement of cooperation and for the development of socialist economic integration unanimously adopted by the Twenty-Fifth Session of COMECON in July 1971 is an important, qualitatively new stage in the development of economic...

One of the most important tasks in the socialist planning of the national economy is that of attaining proportionality in its development. This does not preclude, however, the possibility of substantial disproportions. The existence of disproportions in our economy shows that planning...

The coordination of the national economic plans of COMECON member nations as a component part of their collaboration in the realm of planning is the basic method for organizing the further planned development and intensification of the international socialist division of labor and one of the...

The Twenty-Fourth Congress of the CPSU opened up broad vistas to the industrial branches producing consumer goods. These branches are called upon to play an immense part in the resolution of the main task in the Party's economic policy: to secure a substantial rise in the well-being of the...