State Administration and Public Expectations

Abstract

The 26th Congress of the CPSU adopted decisions on improving the economic mechanisms and in so doing stressed that with the turn toward an intensification of social production, subjective factors, such as the level of consciousness of those participating in the labor process, their discipline, and their sense of responsibility, and an organic combination of diligent execution, bold initiative, enterprise, and practical efficiency with a desire to achieve great social goals assume great importance. The Congress called for more attention to be paid to questions concerning molding the new man, with more thorough development of the individual personality. The course outlined by the Party was concretized and developed in the decisions of subsequent plenums of the CPSU Central Committee with regard to improving, on all fronts, the system of management of the nation's economy and searching for new forms and structures of economic activity. Hence, it is in this context very important for those engaged in the stud...