Developed Socialist Society Research Articles

Sociological Problems of Labor in Developed Socialist Society

Labor activity is one of the basic categories of Marxist sociology, and is being studied on both the theoretical and the empirical planes. There have been a number of major studies successfully synthesizing these two levels and containing important results.1 However, a large proportion of these studies were carried out in the late '60s and early '70s. Recently, there has been an increase in the number of investigations dealing with problems of labor activity that lack the requisite connection with the general problems and laws of its development under socialism. These studies have therefore been less fruitful than they might have. If the productiveness of applied research is to improve, not only must the methods used be improved, there must also be further theoretical analysis and generalization from the data obtained—an exploration of what they signify essentially in terms of general sociological theory—as well as the development on this basis of conceptions that could give a new impulse to the practical...

Psychology Working for the School Reform

The Twenty-sixth CPSU Congress and the subsequent CPSU Central Committee Plenums have placed before Soviet science the crucial task of heightening efficiency in incorporating the results of scientific research into socialist construction, in order to promote scientific and technological progress, a rise in labor productivity, the upbringing of the new man, and the optimization of all spheres of life in developed socialist society. Psychology has an important role to play in addressing this task.

Some Ways of Increasing Educational Efficiency

Improvement in the public education and occupational training of young people are an integral part of the optimization of developed socialist society. The shift to intensive economic development, the actualizaton of a broadscale, integral socioeconomic program, the ongoing expansion and reinforcement of socialist democracy, the practical construction, in the main and basically, of a classless social structure, and the shaping of the new man elicit an imperative demand for far-reaching change within the educational system. At the Twenty-sixth CPSU Congress, a definition for development in our society over the current decade was followed by a call "to enhance the operational efficiency of all the units and forms of education and cadre training." [1]

On the Question of Social Differentiation in Developed Socialist Society

Research into the problems of the social structure of developed socialist society has advanced significantly over the past decade. These studies can now be regarded as having reached a qualitatively new stage, characterized by emphasis upon the specific features of the chosen approach, be it philosophical, historical, sociological, or whatever else. It is very important that in elaborating this many-sided problem no single scientific discipline should be taken as universally valid and that the essence of controversial issues should not be distorted by pseudoscientific ratiocination.

A New Stage in the Development of the Vocational School

The transformations outlined by the CPSU Central Committee, the USSR Supreme Soviet, and the Soviet government in documents on the school reform are an integral part of the constructive activity undertaken by the Communist Party to optimize developed socialist society and are crucial to the confirmation of socialist civilization. As comrade Konstantin U. Chernenko, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, indicated in the address he gave to the April 1984 Central Committee Plenum, one main point of reference—the shaping of a comprehensively developed personality—determines the essence and the purpose of the reform. By the time Soviet young people embark on an independent existence, they should be highly cultured and well educated, and have a fondness for work.

Planned Pricing: Ways to Improve

Planned pricing is a very important tool for implementing the CPSU's economic policy. Success in the implementation of measures to improve the economic mechanism and to bolster its impact on increasing the effectiveness of the economy of developed socialist society depends largely on the quality of pricing. Price planning—price setting in the stage preceding design and production—facilitates the most rational economic decisions, the proper distribution of resources among various spheres and branches of production, and production in a volume and mix corresponding to social needs articulated in five-year and long-range plans.

Toward Reform in the General Education and Vocational School

The general education and vocational school reform aims to elevate the work of the school "to a new qualitative level which matches the conditions and the requirements of developed socialist society." It was noted at the June 1983 Plenum of the CPSU Central Committee that the Party is working toward a situation in which a person in this country is nurtured not simply as the vehicle of a finite body of knowledge, but, above all, as a citizen of socialist society, an active builder of communism, with distinctive objectives, ethics, and interests—a person who is highly cultured in his labor and his conduct.

Publisher's Note

Abstract The issue of Soviet Education is excerpted from public education in developed socialist society, by A.K. Karypkulov. The translation includes the note from the Russian editor, the introduction, and chapters 3 and 4.

Chapter 2: The Societal Functions of the Education System in Developed Socialist Society

Chapter 2: The Societal Functions of the Education System in Developed Socialist Society

Certain Methodological Questions Regarding Improvements in the Social Mechanism for Reconciling the Interests of Society and the Individual

The problem of reconciling the interests of the individual and society is a traditional area of study in the social sciences. Current theoretical efforts in this area are focused primarily on problems that are of fundamental significance in improving developed socialist society in all respects. Understandably, at both the theoretical and the practical level, harmonizing the interests and activity of the individual with society's expectations, as one of the most important social conditions to the successful functioning of our society, is not an automatic process, but needs to be scientifically controlled.

Chapter 1: Principles and Structure of the Soviet Education System

The education system created in our country during the years of Soviet rule has-according to the basic indicators-become the most progressive in the world and one of the important sectors in the activity of developed socialist society.

Rising Standards of Public Education in the Developed Socialist Society: A Normative Analysis

Rising Standards of Public Education in the Developed Socialist Society: A Normative Analysis

Rising Standards of Public Education in the Developed Socialist Society: A Normative Analysis

As the country's economic potential grew more robust, as science and technology progressed and cultural horizons broadened, the quality of education showed a pointed improvement, and standards of general education rose.

Developed Socialism in the Soviet Bloc: Political Theory and Political Reality. Edited by Jim Seroka and Maurice D. Simon. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1982. x, 198 pp. Tables. $18.00. - Developed Socialist Society: Basic Features and Place in History. By F. Gelbuch and P. Lopata. Translated by Lev Bobrov. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1980 [originally published as Razvitie sotsialisticheskogo obshchestva: lstoricheskoe

Developed Socialism in the Soviet Bloc: Political Theory and Political Reality. Edited by Jim Seroka and Maurice D. Simon. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1982. x, 198 pp. Tables. $18.00. - Developed Socialist Society: Basic Features and Place in History. By F. Gelbuch and P. Lopata. Translated by Lev Bobrov. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1980 [originally published as Razvitie sotsialisticheskogo obshchestva: lstoricheskoe

The Nation's Investment Potential

In the 60 years that have elapsed since the formation of the USSR, our nation's economy has been transformed into an intricate, highly developed complex that incorporates the economies of all union republics and that develops under a single state plan which coalesces the nation's interests with the interests of each republic. One of the important features characterizing the economy of developed socialist society is the existence of a group of branches in Department I which produce means of labor mat form the nation's fixed capital and that are the basis of socialist expanded reproduction.

Price Formation and the Economic Mechanism

The planned price formation system is a very important instrument in the economic policy of the CPSU. The improvement of the entire economic mechanism and the higher economic effectiveness of developed socialist society depend in large measure on the quality of price formation.

Improving the Mechanism of Planned Price Control

As noted at the Twenty-sixth Congress of the CPSU, under the conditions of developed socialist society there are important problems in the realm of planned price formation. The rapid growth of the product mix is accompanied by a greater number of prices and by vastly larger flows of information on prices. The processes that promote change in product mix, fashion, the correlation of supply and demand, proportionality factors in the price system, and its correspondence to the objective basis are becoming considerably more dynamic. All this necessitates the discovery of new methods, techniques, and means of processing rapidly growing flows of economic information on prices and methods that improve the existing price control mechanism.

Soviet Theory of “Political System of Developed Socialist Society”: History and Contents

Soviet Theory of “Political System of Developed Socialist Society”: History and Contents

Atheistic Education in the School: Theoretical and Practical Issues

Abstract The Communist Party of the Soviet Union [CPSU] has advanced the shaping of a communist world view in the broad masses of working people as the most important task of all educational work, an objective necessity in developed socialist society, dictated by the practical requirements of communist construction.

The migration policy of developed Socialist society: problems of improvement.

In the USSR the need for migration policy stems from objective processes in the development of socialist production and from its constant structural and territorial modifications, which are particularly palpable under current conditions, at a time when vast new regions are undergoing intensive development. Migration policy, to play the part of an effective instrument for exerting a purposeful influence on migration processes, must be stable in its basic directions and relatively flexible when it is necessary to react quickly to changes in various relatively local circumstances. The determination of criteria of optimization of migration processes is of paramount significance for the solution of problems of migration policy. The improvement of migration policy under the conditions of developed socialism must be based on the known patterns of reproduction of the population. At the same time it is necessary to consider the fact that the migration of the population proper can be considered as the source of regional differences in this reproduction and simultaneously is their consequence to a considerable degree. Consequently, 1 of the approaches to the elaboration of migration policy measures is oriented toward the equalization of conditions of population reproduction at the settlement and regional level. Many investigators of the problem of retaining youth in the countryside and of attracting skilled persons to rural areas believe the optimization of the productive and nonproductive spheres of activity to be the solution. Migration policy is implemented at 3 levels: the population as a whole; the collective; and the individual. Migration policy measures are divided according to the nature of their impact on the population into economic, moral, and administrative categories with the leading role assigned to economic measures. Among the economic measures that stimulate migration, a leading role is played by cash payments in the form of wage increases and one time grants. Recognizing the role of distribution on the basis of labor in the regulation of the migratory mobility of the population, the general direction of improvement of migration policy consists in the further raising of the role of consumption funds and particularly the fund for the joint satisfaction of requirements. The superiority of social consumption funds over wages in attracting and retaining the population stems particularly from the fact that the consumption of goods and services available free of charge or for a reduced charge occurs only at the place where they are offered. Ecomonic measures of migration policy must consider the fact that work incentives have recently included creative stimuli associated with the character, content, and conditions of work.