Peaceful Economic Competition Research Articles

Correspondence: Debating the Chinese Cyber Threat

Correspondence: Debating the Chinese Cyber Threat

The Comparability of USSR and USA National Income

Our country has made a great deal of progress in the peaceful economic competition between socialism and capitalism.

The Comparability of USSR and USA National Income

Our country has made a great deal of progress in the peaceful economic competition between socialism and capitalism.

Comparisons of Indices on Labor Productivity and the Training of Highly Qualified Specialists in the USSR and the USA

Soviet statistics gives considerable attention to the comparative study of indices characterizing the economic and cultural development of the USSR and other countries, and especially the USSR and the USA. The peaceful economic competition between the Soviet Union and the United States embraces diverse aspects of their economic life and bears witness to the indisputable advantages of the socialist system.

Rates of Growth of the National Income of the USSR

With the adoption of the Seven-Year Plan for the economic development of the USSR from 1959 to 1965 our country entered the period of the comprehensive building of a communist society. In these years a decisive step will be taken toward creating the material and technical base of communism and ensuring the victory of the USSR in the peaceful economic competition with the capitalist countries. The fundamental problem of the next seven years is that of the maximum gain of time in the peaceful economic competition of socialism with capitalism, N. S. Khrushchev said at the 21st Party Congress. (1) Solution of this problem requires the largest possible rates of Soviet economic development along with a constant rise in the well-being of the Soviet people. That is why the problems of the rates of growth of the production of industrial output, basic agricultural products and the social product as a whole are most important in the economic competition between socialism and capitalism.

Socialism Will Win in Peaceful Economic Competition With Capitalism

The Great October Socialist Revolution opened a new era in the history of mankind, an era of the collapse of capitalism and of the establishment of a new order - communism. Characterizing the significance of the October Revolution, V. I. Lenin wrote: … We are proud that it is our good fortune to begin the construction of a Soviet state, and thus begin a new epoch in world history, an epoch of the reign of a new class that is oppressed in all capitalist countries and is marching everywhere to a new life, to victory over the bourgeoisie, to the dictatorship of the proletariat, toward liberation of mankind from the yoke of capital, from imperialist wars.

Greater Material Incentives and Technological Progress

The 2lst Congress of the CPSU has adopted a grand program for the further development of our country's productive forces and for achieving a level of production, a degree of mechanization and automation, and a growth of labor productivity which will enable our country to considerably raise the well-being of the people and make a decisive step in building up the material and technical base of communism in the current Seven-Year Plan. In summing up the results of the work of fulfilling the decisions of the 21st Party Congress the July (1960) Plenary Meeting of the Party Central Committee once again pointed out the fact that the basic problem of the current Seven-Year Plan - to win maximum time in the peaceful economic competition between socialism and capitalism - could be solved only through accelerating in every possible way the rate of technological progress and on this basis the growth of labor productivity.

An International Session on Questions of Industrial Statistics

Under conditions of the existence of two economic systems - the Socialist and capitalist systems - and the peaceful economic competition between them, the comparison of methods and statistical data becomes a matter of great importance. One of the forms of strengthening international cooperation is the convening of various international conferences of economists on these questions. This is suggested by the participation of Soviet representatives in the work of the conference of European statisticians and its working groups. Early in 1960 a session of the working group on industrial statistics took place in Geneva. This group was set up to discuss the document on the plans for holding a World Industrial Census in 1963 drawn up by the UNO Statistics Bureau and to study the plans for carrying out a European census (the collection of data on local units and enterprises, the flow of commodities to the market, etc.).

The Level of Labor Productivity in the USSR and the USA

The building of communist society, which is being carried on successfully in the Soviet Union, is proceeding under conditions of peaceful economic competition between socialism and capitalism. The level and rates of growth of labor productivity are one of the major indices of the course of the competition, a requisite for accomplishing the main economic task of the USSR. V. 1. Lenin pointed out that socialism will finally demonstrate its superiority over capitalism when it achieves a higher level of labor productivity than prevails under capitalism. Moreover, socialism must outstrip capitalism in labor productivity not only in industry, but also in all other branches of material production.

On the Methodology of Comparing Economic Indices of the USSR and the USA

In conditions of peaceful economic competition between the Soviet Union and the United States the proper scientific comparison of our indices with the indices of American statistics is of great importance. Comparisons between the economic indices of the USSR and the USA are contained in recent highly important political documents of the Communist Party and the Soviet Government, particularly in the decisions of the 20th and 21st CPSU Congresses, plenary meetings of the CPSU Central Committee, the Seven-Year Plan target figures, and reports and statements by N. S. Khrushchev, First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee and Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers.

Capital Investments and Rates of Expanded Production

The Soviet Union's entry into the period of comprehensive construction of a communist society represents a new phase in the economic competition between socialism and capitalism. The decisive factor in this competition will be the high rates of growth of production in our country. All the major targets of the Seven-Year Plan are directed to the maximum accelerationof economic development, especially of the decisive branches 01 industry. "The fundamental problem in the coming seven-year period," according to the Resolutions of the 21st Party Congress, "is the problem of winning maximum time in the peaceful economic competition between socialist and capitalism."

The International Socialist Division of Labor

world socialist system has entered a new and decisive phase of peaceful economic competition with the capitalist system: in the near future it should outweigh the capitalist system in world production, outstrip the more developed capitalist states in the productivity of SOcial labor, in per capita output and attain the highest standard of living in the world. solution of these great tasks presupposes the constant concern of the SOcialist states for the close coordination of their economic development based on a growing international division of labor. The international division of labor, especially its highest forms - specialization and cooperation, Nikita Khrushchev pointed out in his report to the 21st Congress of the CPSU, is to play a big role in the development of the economy of the socialist camp.

Costs of Production in Local Industry and Problems of Pricing

The 21st Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which approved the target figures for the development of the national economy of the USSR in 1959-1965, will go down in history as the congress of the builders of communism. The program of all-out building of a communist society, set forth in the report by N. S. Khrushchev and in the resolutions of the congress, is reflected in the major targets of the Seven-Year Plan. One of these is the development, on the basis of the growth of the country's productive forces, of the material-technical foundation for communism and the triumph of the USSR in the peaceful economic competition with the capitalist countries.

Modernization of Equipment - An Important Objective of the Seven-Year Plan

The 21st Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union has outlined a grandiose program of all-round development of the country's productive forces, the realization Jf which will be a decisive step in the creation of the basis for communism in material technology, and in the fulfillment of the basic economic task of the USSR. A fundamental problem in the forthcoming seven-year plan is acceleration of the development of the national economy on the road to communism, and a maximum gain in time in the peaceful economic competition between socialism and capitalism.

Production and ideology in the soviet union

Abstract A fundamental objective of business planning in the Soviet Union is to ensure a rate of growth which considerably exceeds that attained by the ‘capitalist’ powers. At the 20th party congress this aim was once again reaffirmed. In the general resolution adopted, the congress deemed it vital to pursue with the utmost vigour the struggle to achieve the primary economic task of the Soviet Union, i.e, to overtake and outstrip the most highly developed capitalist countries in production per head of population, and to do so within the shortest possible time and by means of peaceful economic competition.