The utmost development of new kinds of power and the thorough and efficient use of the Soviet Union's natural resources should play an exceptionally important part in accomplishing the tasks of building up the material and technical basis of communism, outlined in the Draft Party Program.

In solving the main economic problem confronting the party and the Soviet people, that of establishing the material and technical base of communism, a. rapid increase of fuel production and the comprehensive development of power is of special importance. Defining electrification as the "backbone...