As a result of the victorious October Revolution, our country has-in the course of socialist construction-become a mighty industrial power with a vast economic and scientific-technological potential. We find in these revolutionary transformations the beginning of the foundations and the...

In the examination of any problem associated with the improvement of the system and methods of planned economic management, it is always necessary to turn to the fundamental principles that can provide the basis for correctly evaluating current processes and reforms that are due. The materials...

The restructuring of the management of the economy is an integral part of the program for the qualitative modernization of socialism. It is revolutionary in spirit, in depth, and in the scale of its transformations, and it is the most radical reform of the system of management undertaken since...

The Soviet economy is on the threshold of major change. The Law of the USSR on the State Enterprise (Association) will take effect at the beginning of the new year. Most of the basic links of industry, all of transport, and many participants in the agro-industrial complex are being converted to...

This paper discusses developments on the trade front in Russia since the deep structural crisis during the 90s which significantly affected the dynamics and structure of Russian foreign trade. After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the consequent formation of the Commonwealth of Independent...

The practical implementation of measures outlined in the July (1979) decrees of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the USSR Council of Ministers is a major step on the road to the development of an economic mechanism that is consistent with the conditions in a mature socialist society.

Today there is no doubt that the decisive prerequisite and condition for the further development of the economy of the USSR is the improvement of the mechanism and methods of socialist management. It is specifically the main reserve for accelerating scientific-technical progress, radically...

The material embodiment of the radical economic reform requires that it be developed from the general conception to a comprehensive program of action. The character and depth of the transformations are connected with the reform's basic conceptual principles. The following are the most important...

When we examine current problems of economic science, we invariably look back. As A. I. Herzen said in his day: "The better we know the past, the more clearly we see the present. The more we become immersed in the meaning of the past, the deeper is our understanding of the sense of the future."...