Decades of totalitarian domination in the former USSR, the five-year period of anarchistic "perestroika" of its economy according to M[ikhail] Gorbachev's methods, and the unsystematic and inconsistent market reforms of the last five years (1991-95) under the conditions of the independent...

The economic policy of the Communist Party and Soviet government in the field of agriculture is aimed at stimulating greater output in every way, at further developing relationships based on economic accountability, and at increasing the effectiveness of social production. Review of the system...

Forecasting the development of agricultural production, like the forecasting of any other sphere of human activity, is probably the most complex process in comprehending and scientifically predicting patterns of the distant future. In the socialist system of national economic planning, forecasts...