Three years have passed since the decision was taken, at the September (1965) Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU, to improve the management of industry and planning, and to intensify economic stimuli in industrial production. The period elapsed is comparatively brief, but significant...

In its decisions, the Twenty-Fourth Congress of the CPSU stressed the need for an integrated systems approach in the elaboration of the key problems in the development of a socialist economy.