It is common knowledge that prerevolutionary Russia lagged greatly behind the capitalist countries of Europe and the USA with respect to economic development. It is true that Russian industry had attained a high degree of concentration of production but, nonetheless, prior to the revolution...

Under the leadership of the Communist Party, the Bulgarian people have, within a short historical period, made large gains in the development of agriculture. Grain yield capacity has risen, livestock and its productivity has increased, the volume of agricultural output has grown. If in 1939, one...

The economy of Siberia and the Far East has undergone radical change during the years of Soviet power, especially during the postwar period. The development of Eastern Siberia's water power resources, the development of oil and gas fields in the West Siberian plain, and the construction of the...

On the basis of many years of experience in the management of the socialist economy of the USSR and in scientific planning of the economy, particularly the experience of the work of supply agencies, it is possible to draw general conclusions concerning ways and means of realizing the advantages...

In accordance with the Comprehensive Program of Socialist Economic Integration, in 1974 COMECON member nations were to sum up the results of their work on the application and improvement of the use of the international socialist collective currency (the transferable ruble) and, on the basis of...

Scientific and technical progress is the basic means for further increasing the effectiveness of social production in the age of developed socialism. The level of science, the significance of new scientific and technical developments and inventions, and the rate of their adoption in production...

The Directives of the Twenty-Fourth Party Congress on the Five-Year Plan for the Development of the USSR National Economy in 1971-1975 devoted special attention to the further improvement of the branch structure of the national economy, to securing optimal proportions in the development of...

As noted at the December (1977) Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, "attention must be focused on increasing the effectiveness of production and improving the quality of the work, on making rational use of the economic potential, on concentrating capital...

The vast scales and profound interrelations in modern socialist production make the management of it more and more complex and important and require a continuous growth in its scientific level. This circumstance dictates the need for continuous progress and the rapid development of economic...

Under the reform, the role of prices as a very important economic lever and as a category on which the new principles of cost accounting and economic incentives are based has risen, and correspondingly higher demands are made on price formation - one of the important sectors of economic...