The State of Economic Research in the Soviet Union

Western economists have for long been under the impression that research into economic problems is stagnating in the Soviet Union. This view is now confirmed by the address which Academician V. Dyatchenko delivered at the 1955 national conference of the heads of the departments of the social sciences of the universities and schools of technology of the Soviet Union, in which he summarised the present state of research activities, and outlined the tasks to which Soviet economists should turn their efforts.