At the November (1978) Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, L. I. Brezhnev noted that all work on the new five-year plan must be based on a search for the most effective and economical ways of attaining the final results of production. Closer attention must...

Among the most important features in the present stage of economic development of COMECON countries is the growing dependence of the growth of social production on the level and rate of improvement of the people's well-being, and especially on the stimulating role of the system of distribution...

According to a wise folk saying: "If you think one year ahead, sow grain. If you think ten years ahead, plant a tree. If you think a hundred years ahead, educate the people." During the years of Soviet power our country has developed a system of public education that includes preschool...

The modern principles used in determining the economic effectiveness of socialist production, scientific and technological progress, and capital investment are based on Marxist economic theory, on the knowledge and utilization of the economic laws of socialism, and on vast experience in planning...

The forty years that passed since the victory of the Great October Socialist Revolution constitute the richest period in content and importance in the development, not only of our country, but also of all mankind. During this relatively short period, socialism became victorious on one-sixth of...

October 1, 1974, marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Chinese People's Republic. A quarter century is a sufficient period of time on the basis of which to sum up a country's social and economic development. However, in the Chinese People's Republic [CPR] these years have not been uniform...

The technical and organizational improvement of production, while promoting the growth of labor productivity, under socialism improves and facilitates working conditions and above all eliminates heavy and unskilled types of labor. The number of work places in which unskilled personnel can be...

The Twenty-Fourth Party Congress and the December (1973) Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU characterized in depth the present conditions in our country's economic development. The increase in the scale of the national economy, changes in the structure of production, the increase in the...

Economic relations between industry and agriculture in socialist society cover a broad spectrum and involve many levels. Industry occupies a leading role in these relations both from the standpoint of property relations and from the standpoint of the development of agricultural production. The...

With the full-scale building of communism improved planning in the distribution of the national income is accompanied by a greater role for the financial system in ensuring expanded socialist reproduction and in the creation of various social funds.