Up to now, the improvement of distribution policy has been considered chiefly within the context of resolving urgent tasks related to the improvement of the people's well-being. The demand now is to substantially increase the impact [of distribution policy] on the intensification of production....

The more the country feels the results of the economic crisis, of increasing social stratification and confrontation, the more frequently do we hear that the time of debates over strategic programs is past. What is needed today is supposedly not "isms" but concrete emergency measures that will...

Leasing is recognized in our country as one of the basic directions of modernization of economic relations and of conveying internal dynamism to them. An edict of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet has been adopted and Fundamental Principles of Legislation on Leasing Relations are being...

Why is our country, which has 602.3 million hectares of agricultural land, 226 million hectares of arable land, the world's finest black earth i[chernozem],/i and other agricultural wealth, unable to feed itself "according to its needs"? Why does it not have enough food in good and bad harvest...

For many decades, the direct or indirect rejection of objective variability and alternative paths of socioeconomic development in general and of socialism in particular has been by no means the last feature of our prevailing ideology. As an expression of extreme ideological intolerance, it has...

It would seem to be very premature to conclude that the agrarian reform has been a success. I would even go so far as to say that the initial stage of the reform has failed in terms of both deadlines and substance. Not only has the reform program not been actively supported by the farmers...

uBasic Features of and the Necessity for the Comprehensive Industrialization of Agricultural Production/u The Twenty-fourth Party Congress emphasized that the approach to the solution of problems relating to the development of agricultural production, elaborated by the March (1965) Plenum of the...

The destatization of social relations occupies a special place in the renewal of Soviet society. Essentially, it is destatization that is the basis and pivot of the transformation of the existing social system, including both its basic and superstructural aspects and the aggregate of the...

The Party's policy is aimed at bringing the working class, the collective farm peasantry, and the intelligentsia closer together and at gradually overcoming significant differences between town and country - as was emphasized at the Twenty-Fourth Congress of the CPSU. At the present stage the...

Positive change in the country's economic situation requires not only fundamental change in the system of management and the search for unconventional forms of management as such, but also the fundamental restructuring of basic relations, especially the relations of socialist property. Such...