On the basis of economic intensification, the USSR is resolving strategic problems of major historical significance: the creation of the material and technological foundation of communism and the formation of a new, higher level of well-being. Intensification is at the same time a means of...

The gradual transition from the first to the second and higher phase of communism is a systematic process. It presupposes the conscious and concerted efforts by millions of people to mobilize all their strength and resources for the purpose of clearing the way for and assisting actively in the...

The draft of the new CPSU Program states that under present conditions, the all-around progress of Soviet society and its movement forward toward communism can and must be secured through the acceleration of socioeconomic development. Acceleration is the Party's strategic course that advances to...

The "Basic Directions of Development of the USSR National Economy in 1976-80" proceed from the economic policy that was elaborated by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) with regard to the conditions of developed socialist society. The new five-year plan maintains continuity with...

The problems of the international socialist division of labor are among the most urgent theoretical and practical problems. The Declaration of the 1957 Conference of Representatives of Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries stressed the special importance of consolidating the...

The recently published Thirty-Eighth Leninist Collection (1) contains hitherto unknown materials by V. I. Lenin on problems pertaining to reproduction. Dating back to 1913, they are the drafts of a plan and materials for a work on E. Luxemburg's book The Accumulation of Capital. Even though the...

The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet people against German fascism vividly demonstrated to the entire world the superiority of a planned socialist national economy to the state-monopoly economy of imperialism. Planning continued to be the basic method of organization of the Soviet economy...

Developed socialist society has its own characteristic type of reproduction, in the process of which the economic laws of socialism are realized with the greatest completeness. This reproduction has many common features with reproduction in the highest phase of communism and develops in the...