The socialist system has suffered a major historical defeat. The economy has found itself at the epicenter of the crisis. It was socialism's economic insolvency (if not its total helplessness in organizing material production) that gave powerful impetus to the réévaluation of so-called...

The author considers how Russia might integrate itself into the world economy on its own terms by modernizing and diversifying its economy.

The decisions of the Twenty-sixth CPSU Congress and the November (1982) and June (1983) Plenums of the CPSU Central Committee indicated the basic directions in which the economic mechanism is to be improved. Specifically, it must be oriented toward maximizing the potential and advantages of the...

The expanded participation of the working people in the management of the economy is closely connected with the development of the independence of enterprises based on full cost accounting. The independence of socialist enterprises and associations should be interpreted not as the antithesis of...

To our way of thinking, the consistent implementation of the systems principle [isistemnost/i'] is one of the chief tasks in the development and realization of the complex of measures for restructuring the national economy's management mechanism. The realization of the systems principle in...