This article describes a concrete methodological approach that makes it possible to construct an integral typology of families according to level of material well-being on the basis of its principle components.sup1/sup This is an actually functioning instrument for the effective study of the...

The dramatic enhancement of the effectiveness of agro-industrial production and the radical improvement of the nation's food supply in the present stage of development of Soviet society are firmly connected with cardinal improvements in the rural population's living conditions. The problems that...

The new system of cooperatives has generated euphoria. It appeared that what the mighty state sector had been unable to achieve in seventy years would finally be achieved. In a speech on the draft law on cooperatives, N.I. Ryzhkov promised that cooperatives would fundamentally alter the...

The decisions of the June 1987 Plenum of the CPSU Central Committee provide a solid foundation for elaborating a theoretical concept to underly management of the agrarian sector of society. The task of the authors is to provide well-grounded methodological principles of such a system of...