A vast program for raising the people's living standards is being implemented in our country. Within the Seven-Year Plan period (1959 to 1965) the consumption fund in the national income of the USSR will increase by approximately 60 billion rubles. Grants and benefits to be paid from the state...

A characteristic feature of developed socialist society is that it deals with a broad range of socioeconomic problems relating to the improvement of the people's well-being. Of great importance in this connection are studies of the structure of the population's needs and consumption, the...

Among the many unique ideas presented at the Nineteenth Party Conference was the need to study the various alternatives before implementing each measure of statewide significance. It was also proposed decisively to reject any variant already chosen if it did not prove to be the best. In other...