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.