Sowjetwirtschaft im Spannungsfeld der Kritik
Soviet economy in the area of conflict of criticism

Summary/Abstract: Anyone who tries to judge the development of the Soviet economy based on the many articles in the literature of the Soviet Union on the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution will have to make a surprising statement. A surprisingly large, if not overwhelming number of these "jubilee articles" are not aimed at appreciating the economic development of the Soviet Union in the form of historical retrospectives, as is customary and expected on such occasions, but rather on the contrary. It was urged and given the task of justifying what has been created ideologically, eco-nomically and politically towards Western "capitalism" as well as the communist "brother countries". Naturally, the four documents printed below can only give a rough impression of this. But they are in many respects most remarkable. For they show that the Soviet leadership is clearly forced to defend its own economic and social system both against alleged misinterpretations by Western publicists, economists and politicians, and - which is felt to be much more painful - against massive attacks from its own communist camp whose spokesman especially China appears to defend.

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