As we know, the leading role in implementing the party's policy of accelerating socioeconomic development belongs to scientific-technological progress. The Twenty-seventh CPSU Congress called for raising the nation's average annual growth rate from 3% during the Eleventh Five-Year Plan to 4%...

The author analyzes general problems of transformation of the Russian socioeconomic system and shows the possibility of priority development of the social sphere, which will be based on superior growth of per capita gross domestic product.