Comparative Growth Rates: A Note

During Stalin's lifetime and even for some years after his death in 1953, in fact until Khrushchev's denunciation of “Stalinism” in a secret session of the Soviet Communist Party held in February 1956 was allowed to become public knowledge later that year, the economists of the socialist camp were hard put to justify the official policy which aimed at constantly increasing the share of investment in the output of the Soviet Union.