The Problem of Scientific Personnel Under the Conditions of the Revolution in Science and Technology

Abstract

Under the conditions of developed socialist society, the progress of science and technology and the improvement of the organization and management of production become a prime source for intensification of the economy, for raising labor productivity and satisfying the rapidly growing needs of the entire population, and for creating the basis for communism in material goods and technology. "One of the major fronts in the historic competition between the two systems lies in the sphere of scientific and technological progress," notes Comrade L. I. Brezhnev, "For our Party, this makes further intensive development of science and technology, and the extensive introduction into production of the very latest achievements of science and technology not only the central economic task but an important political task. At the present stage, one can state unqualifiedly that questions of scientific and technological progress acquire decisive significance." Therefore, it is natural that questions of further development of science and acceleration of technological progress will also have to occupy an important place in the long-range plan for development of the economy of the USSR in 1976-1990, the drafting of which has now begun.