Chapter 1: The Further Improvement of Higher Education in Accordance with the Needs of the Socioeconomic and Scientific and Technological Progress of Soviet Society

Abstract

Abstract A characteristic feature of the current period in the development of the national economy, science, technology, and all areas of our country's social life is shifting emphasis from extensive to intensive growth factors. The importance of this pattern of communist construction for the scientific control of socioeconomic progress was disclosed in depth at the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth congresses of the Communist party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) [in 1971 and 1976], which focused the party's economic strategy on a course for boosting the effectiveness and quality of labor in all segments of the national economy.