Information Supplement to 'Soviet Studies' April 1964

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INFORMATION SUPPLEMENT TO 'SOVIET STUDIES'

APRIL 1964

The editors are grateful for all the comments and criticisms made of the first issue of the Supplement. It is hoped that the present one shows an improvement. The system of classification may still be felt to be unsatisfactory - unfortunately a permanent scheme can only evolve from the first trial .ssues. Suggestions on a clearer scheme are welcomed. But even more welcome would be actual information items, particularly short notes on new books, for future issues. Cooperation from the different research centres and from individuals would produce a Supplement of much greater value to the research worker. The team at Glasgow is only too well aware of its own limitations.

This issue is being distributed free of charge. Extra copies are available and will be sent on request. Beginning with the July issue, non-sub- scribers to Soviet Studies will be able to receive the four issues of the Supplement for an annual subscription of 10/-. All correspondence (both information items and subscriptions) should be addressed to: Information Supplement, Institute of Soviet and East European Studies, The University, Glasgow, W.2.

SOCIAL

LAW

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW: confirmation of the Decrees of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (USSR) of 8/v/63 and 11/xi/63 on fines inflicted in administrative proceedings. Ved. Verkh. Sov. SSSR, 52/63.*

: (territorial division) confirmation of the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (USSR) of 19/ix/63 on partial change of frontier between Kazakh and Uzbek SSR. Ved. Verkh. Sov. SSSR, 52/63.

CIVIL LAW: (inventions) article on some new rules in respect of inventions, paritcularly as regards collective authorship of enterprises or organizations. Sov. gos. i pravo, 1/64.

- --: (damages) Postanovleniye no. 16 of the Plenum of Supreme Court (USSR) on court practice in applying Art. 88 - 95 of Fundamentals of Civil Legislation (1961) dealing with damages. Sov. yust. 24/63.

- - -: (arbitration) new regulations governing inter-enterprise contracts adopted in June 1962 and August 1963. Active role of arbitration organs. Ekon. gaz. 25/i/64, p. 34.

CRIMINAL LAW: confirmation of the Decrees of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (RSFSR) on (i) increasing liability for feeding livestock and poultry bread and other grain products bought in state and cooperative stores of 6/v/63 (corrective labour up to 1 year or deprivation of freedom from 1 - 3 years, with or without confiscation of livestock); (ii) liability of persons maliciously violating discipline places of deportation of 6/v/63 (3 - 15

* For tables of journals used and of abbreviations, see p. 26.



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days imprisonment); (iii) confiscation of cars owned by owners of houses and other buildings acquired from unearned income of 28/ix/63; (iv) increasing liability for violating regulations on hunting of 14/x/63 (Art. 166 of CC RSFSR amended: to the main punishment of fine up to 200 r. an additional punishment of confiscation of bag and instruments of hunting which, according to some comments, may also include motor vehicles utilized for hunting); (v) organization of corrective-labour colonies -settle- ments and transfer to them of convicts who have firmly embarked on the path of correction of 26/vi/63. Ved. Verkh. Sov. RSFSR, 51/63.

- --: Postanovleniye no. 19 of the Plenum of Supreme Court (USSR) on interpretation of Art. 44 and 45 of the Basic Principles of Criminal Legislation (1958) regarding the remission, conditional remission of punishment and commutation of the remission of punishment to a lighter one. Sov. yust. 3/64.

- - : article on substantial differences in defining bodily injury and punishments in Crimin. Codes of different union republics. Sots. zak. 12/63, p. 19.

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: confirmation of the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (USSR) of 6/iv/63, on granting agencies for safeguarding public order the right to conduct preliminary investigation (until the Decree of 6/iv/63, only the investigators of the procuracy and of state security were entitled to conduct preliminary investigation as distinct from inquiry always conducted by agencies for safeguarding public order). Ved. Verkh. Sov. SSSR, 52/63.

.- -......: confirmation of the Decrees of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (RSFSR) of 15/v/63 and 10/ix/63 on amendments to Art. 34, 125, 126 (preliminary investigation) and 36, 96, 374, 5, 75, 105, 126, 178, 259, 303, 309, 314, 315, 331, 364, 368, 369 of the RSFSR Code of Criminal Procedure. Fed. Verkh. Sov. RSFSR, 51/63.

...- - - : article on the controversial problem whether people's assessors should have exclusive jurisdiction in deciding the question of guilt; some proposals for improving the work of courts, particularly courts of appeal and supervision. Sov. gos. i pravo, 12/63.

: article demanding that Presidiums of Supreme Courts of regions, territories and ASSR should be deprived of right to supervise cases already decided by the same courts as cassation instances. Sov. yust. 2/64.

- - ? : Postanovleniye no. 18 of the Presidium of Supreme Court (USSR) on measures for improving consideration of appeals and complaints by citizens in court cases. Sov. yust. 3/64.

CRIMINAL CASE: a conviction for murder (based exclusively on the con- fession of the accused, which he had later withdrawn) was quashed by Supreme Court USSR after appeal against the conviction had been rejected by the Presidium of the Azerbaijan Supreme Court. Ved. Verkh. Suda SSSR, 36/63, p. 37.

ADVOCATES: article on the role of advocate in collecting evidence and his participation in criminal proceedings as regards evidence. Sots. zak. 11/63.

-: article on the educative tasks of advocate as counsel in criminal cases against minors. Sov. yust. 2/64.

COURTS: Postanovlenive no. 18 of the Presidium of Supreme Court (USSR)



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on measures for improving proceedings on appeals and complaints by citizens in court cases. Sov. yust. 3/64.

- - -: changes in personal composition of Supreme Court RSFSR. Ved. Verkh. Soy. RSFSR, 51/63.

- -: article on importance of comrades courts in struggle against criminality and demand that some cases of private charge (prosecution) should be transferred from the jurisdiction of people's courts to consideration of comrades courts. V.L.U. (Ek. Fil. Pr.), 23/63.

HOUSING: the law passed by the Supreme Soviet Latvian SSR (3/viii/62) on 'The confiscation of houses and dachas built by citizens out of unearned incomes' is not always adhered to by local authorities. Some have not yet set up commissions to investigate the matter, and where there are such commissions, they are working timidly. Sovy. Lat. 22/xii/63.

- -: article on court practice in respect of eviction from apartment buildings of enterprises and institutions (Art. 62 of Civil Legislation). Sovy. yust. 4/64.

- -: see STANDARD OF LIVING

LEGAL JOURNALS: Sots. zakonnost is to become the journal of both the Supreme Court and the procuracy (hitherto it has been only of the latter). The aim is to provide better coordination between the two organs, in particular as regards the prophylactic aspects of the law. Byull. Verkh. Suda SSSR, 6/63, p. 25.

POLICE: uchaskovy upolnomocheny can be private citizen (special constable) but usually he is a member of the militia. Sov. Lat. 14/xi/63.

PRIVATE PLOTS: Decree of CM of the Ukraine (7/x/63) fixed the size of private plots. For those working in agriculture, near urban centres: 0.20 ha per family, 0.10 if it is vineyard country; for those in agriculture in rural districts: 0.25 and 0.13 ha; for those in rural areas but not employed in agriculture: 0.15 and 0.08. The land used for buildings is included. Further details on the Decree are given. Rad. pravo, 1/64, p. 145.

- - - -: regulations cited limiting private plots of sovkhoz employees to 0.25 ha (less in suburban and irrigated areas) including area occupied by buildings. Aged kolkhozniki whose kolkhozy have been turned into sovkhozy are subject to the same limits as are some other rural citizens listed in the regulations. Other state employees are limited to 0.15 ha. Any sovkhoz etc. families not now in possession of a plot may be granted one, but not exceeding 0.15 ha. These rules apply to RSFSR only. Ekon.gaz. 15/ii/64, p. 7.

- - - -: protest by a reader and the editors against the reduction of land plots of rural teachers to 0.08 ha in the Ukraine. Uch. gaz. 20/ii/64, p. 2.

PROCEDURE OF DRAFTING: article by Novikov on the participation of academic lawyers in the work of the Supreme Soviet commissions dealing with legislative proposals. The lawyers occupy the post of either chairman or vice-chairman on all the sub-commissions. In 1962-3 representatives of the legislative commissions visited different republics in an attempt to coordinate efforts on the working out of new Family and Corrective Labour Codes. The author emphasizes the importance of participation in order to prevent the divorce of legislation from reality (as happened under the



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personality cult); and suggests that legislative practice itself is a most important criterion of theoretical truth. Sov. gos. i pravo, 12/63.

..-.....- - : article dealing with the necessity of carrying out social surveys in order to help the legislators; this study of the social factors was ignored during the personality cult; some of the early theore- ticians had the correct approach towards this problem (e.g. Stuchka) but their ideas were falsified by Vyshinski. Sov. gos. i pravo, 1/64, pp. 39 - 40.

PROCURACY: changes in the Decree of 16/ix/63 on class ranks of procurators and investigators of the procuracy and corresponding amendments to Art. 56 of the Regulations on the Supervision by the Procuracy (Decree of 25/v/55); abrogation of Art. 1 and 2 of the Decree of 13/vii/55. Ved. Verkh. Sov. SSSR, 8/64.

- - -: article demanding more active participation by procurators in civil proceedings in conformity with the instructions issued by the Pro- curator-General. Sots. zak. 2/64.

GOVERNMENT

CONSTITUTION: amendments to Art. 60, 69, 70, 77, 78 and 82, abrogation of Art. 88a and 88b of the USSR Constitution (in conformity with the recent reorganizations in the field of economic administration and structure of ministries). Ved. Verkh. Sov. SSSR, 52/63.

.....-: amendments to Art. 47, 54, 55 and 69 of the RSFSR Const. Verkh. Sov. RSFSR, 51/63.

ELECTIONS: instances of nakazy of electors. Gor. khoz. Moskvy, 1/64, p. 32.

LOCAL SOVIETS: extensive investigation by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (RSFSR) into the violations of socialist legality by the local soviets of the Kirov oblast; their failure to observe the recent legislation which has reduced their powers to impose fines for the violation of their administrative orders. Ved. Verkh. Sov. RSFSR, 52/63, pp. 1052-3.

PRESS: functions of Armenian CM State Committee for the Press. They include the control of all printing establishments without exception; the rationalization of book production and distribution, including measures against the increasing quantity of unbought books; decisions about authors' pay and questions of copyright. Kommunist (Armenia), 7/ii/64.

SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS: in Latvia there are 2,184 druzhini units with about 44,000 members, more than half of whom are party or komsomol members. There are 2,600 comrades courts with 10,500 members. Sov. Lat. 22/xii/63.

STATE COMMITTEE: the transformation of the State Committee for the Coordination of Research from an all-Union into a Union-republic organ (not a ministry). Ved. Verkh. Sov. SSSR, 5/64, art. 60.

POLITICAL

GEORGIA: XXII Congress CP Georgia, speech of D. Sturua (secretary TsK)



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mostly devoted to ideology. He criticizes a nationalist bent in recent academic writing, quoting examples of books which have had to be re- written; also the literary journal 'Lit. Georgia' for publishing Akhmadu- lina's poem 'Dozhd'; the journal Mnatobi and newspaper Tbilisi for publishing the memoirs of K. Gamcakhurdiya in which the author 'unob- jectively interprets the historical events of the recent past'. The journals stopped further publication of the memoirs. Zarya vost. 2/ii/64.

REHABILITATION: a four-page biography of F. Raskolnikov. Reference to his conduct at the time of the purges. When in 1939 in France he heard that he had been proclaimed 'an enemy of the people', he published an open letter 'How they have made me "an enemy of the people"' in which he defended himself and others; he also wrote an open letter to Stalin accusing him of mass repression against innocent people. The description of his conduct 'To the end of his days F. Raskolnikov remained a Bol- shevik, a Leninist, a citizen of the Soviet Union. Finding himself in exile he in no way compromised himself', could be taken to imply criticism of those who acted differently. Vop. ist. KPSS, 12/63, pp. 90 - 4.

: article in commemoration of Dybenko's 75th birthday. Reference is made to his refusal to accept high rank when offered it by the Kronstadt sailors in 1917 with the comment 'This was a reply worthy of a Leninist Bolshevik'. Pravda, 17/ii/64.

VLASOV'S ARMY: referred to by I.Stadnyuk in a story about the last months of the war in Austria. Ogonek, 9/64, pp. 9 - 11.

PARTY HISTORY: (XVII Congress CPSU) article by Shamyan in honour of the 30th anniversary in which he refers to the fact that some of the dele- gates, aware of the contents of Lenin's will, wished to transfer Stalin to another post. He also refers to Kirov's murder 'the circumstances of which are not yet completely clear' and to the opposition leaders' recognition of their mistakes, without implying that they were in any way acting insin- cerely. Pravda, 7/ii/64.

....- : Fedoseeyev and F,antsev suggest that Pokrovski, despite erring sometimes on the subjective side, in the main had a Marxist and party approach; they suggest that the Stalin-Kirov-Zhdanov views on textbooks (1934) and the relevant party decisions should not be regarded as fully authoritative in that they contain some errors. Kommunist, 2/64, pp. 62 -3.

..... - : details on the activities, membership and decisions of the Politburo committee on collectivization, December 1929, Stalin's amendments to the committee's recommendations; some important details of the arguments advanced in January 1930. Genesis of excesses analysed. Vop. ist. KPSS, 1/64, p. 32 ff.

FOREIGN RELATIONS

COEXISTENCE: two articles on State frontiers and territorial disputes which should be settled 'by peaceful means, by negotiation' in conformity with the principles of peaceful coexistence. Kommunist, 2/64.

COMECON MEETING: Rumania was not among those who attended the 15th meeting of the Permanent Agricultural Commission in Sofia, although



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there were observers from N. Korea and N. Vietnam. In Comecon journal: Mezhd. sel. zh. 1/64.

CONSULAR RELATIONS: report on Vienna Conference on Consular Relations (1963) and Soviet position particularly as regards Art. 31, 36, 72 and 74 which are considered unsatisfactory. Sov. gos. i pravo, 11/63.

GREAT PA TRIOTIC WAR: article on Anglo-Soviet relations on the eve of the war; frank statements on the extent and character of Soviet-German trade during the period of neutrality and on the information given to Cripps during the first period of his mission. Vop. ist. 12/63.

PEKING RADIO: article on its lies and insults. The author objects to Peking Radio playing the Internationale. Sov. pechat, 19/63, p. 57.

REPORTING: Za rubezhom, a weekly, devoted to the coverage of the foreign press (32 pages, ciruclation of 300,000, good lay-out) provides serious reporting on foreign affairs. About two-thirds of the journal is straight translations from the foreign press. In 1/64, for example, the Common Market is covered by articles from The Financial Times, Ekonomie et Politique, Paris-llatch, Vorwarts, etc.

VIENNA CONVENTION: ratification of Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, 1961 (with reservation to Art. 11, p. 1 and declaration in respect of Art. 48 and 50). Ved. Verkh. Sov. SSSR, 8/64.

INTELLECTUAL AND IDEOLOGICAL

ACADEMlIC JOURNALS: the editorial board of Vop. fil. has been partially changed 'In accordance with the ruling of the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences USSR on the perodic renewal (obnovleniye) of the composition of editorial boards of academic journals....' (?). Vop. fil. 11/63.

MARXISM: letter protesting at errors in Large Soviet Encyclopedia and other authoritative sources on Marx's ideas concerning the possibility of socialism arising in many countries at once. Vop. fil. 12/63, p. 173.

RELIGION: important statement of the CC CPSU Ideological Commission on measures against religious beliefs. Part. zh. 2/64, pp. 22 - 24.

- - : trials of Christian sectarians have been reported in Red Uz., Sov. Turk. 17/i/64 (Riga); Sov. Turk. 12/ii/64 (Merv); Soc. Kaz. 7/ii/64 (Alma Ata).

- - : anti-religious propaganda with special reference to Islam. A conference was held at Dushanbe (all participants seem to have Muslim names) for 4 days in early February. Red Uz. 9/ii/64. Other articles on this topic: problems of teaching atheism. Comm. 21/i/64; review of readers' letters on atheism. Comm. 12/ii/64; article less truculent in tone than the corresponding Russian-language paper of the same date. Sov. Taj. (T), 4/ii/64; an article, the only one, which stresses international connections with imperialism. Sov. Taj. (U), 5/ii/64; leading or special articles. Comm. 4/ii/64; Sov. Turk. 8/i/64; Sov. Taj. (U), 8/ii/64; Soc. Kaz. 13/ii/64; Lit. and cult. 18/i/64.

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and Tajikistan. Attack on religious festivals. Sov. Taj. (T), 11/i/64; on light-hearted attitudes to divorce (Muslim style) and polygamy. Sov. Taj. (T), 17/i/64; satirical story about mullahs. Comm. 16/i/64.

EDUCATION

SECONDARY SCHOOL: continuation of the discussion on the system. Sug- gestion from a teacher of a return to a more condensed curriculum as in the twenties; a nine year course so that at the age of sixteen pupils can go straight into production or higher education i.e. universities. Izvestiya, 28/xii/63.

SPECIAL SCHOOLS: responsible account of the special physico-mathematics IX-XI grade boarding schools; selection of pupils and similar developments in other schools; by Acad. Kolmogorov. Uch. gaz. 11/ii/64, pp. 2 - 3.

NATIONALITIES: article by A. Lebbin, chairman of the State Committee on University and Special Technical Education (Estonia) in which he criticizes the lack of internationalism in education. Too few courses and groups in the different institutions use the Russian language; student exchanges are poorly developed - instead of the 206 students who were meant to go to other republics only 168 were sent. Sov. Est. 25/i/64.

UNIVERSITY: the Ivan Frank university of Lvov is 300 years old, has 30 faculties, 60 departments. The new faculties are mainly scientific and technological but the arts side is not neglected. Some professors are listed. The rector is M. Maksimovich. Lit. Ukr. 10/i/64.

ECONO7IIC: economics training organised by party in Volgograd prom-obkom area. All town party organizations have economist groups and seminars. In Volgograd 6000 students from enterprises attend an 'oblast university of economics and technical progress'. Ekon. gaz. 18/i/64, p. 3.

ARTS

ART: list of candidates up for election to full membership of the Academy of Art, and corresponding members: painters, sculptors, art critics, stage designers. Sov. kult. 9/i/64.

ART CRITICISM1: V. Serov, first secretary of the Union of Artists (RSFSR), criticizes those art critics who earlier advanced ideologically unsound views, admitted their mistakes at sectional meetings, but do not do so before a wider audience. This has a bad effect on the young. Too many of the art critics and connoisseurs are alienated from life. Sov. kult. 18/i/64.

CINEMIA: a film has been made of the novel 'Silence' by Yu. Bondarev, which first appeared in Novy mir, 3-5/62. The novel deals with a young man's difficulty in leading a civilian life after his war experiences and his reactions to his father's arrest and disappearance. Isk. kino, 2/64.

DESIGN: the question of 'contemporary' or 'representative' designs was discussed by the women textile workers of the Trokhgorny factory, whose fabrics are very popular perhaps because of their contemporary design. The



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women were in favour of this trend in furniture and fabrics. The reporter argues that the need for realism does not extend to applied art where the aim is to fit the style to the type of goods. Consequently applied art can be either 'representative' or 'contemporary' as the subject demands. Sov. kult. 23/i/64.

LITERATURE: poems by R. Rozhdestvenski and A. Voznesenski, and an excerpt from Ehrenburg's memoirs have appeared in nos. 10, 11, 12 of last year's Yunost. B. Okudzhava writes in no. 2/64.

- - -: Evgenia Ivanovna is favourably reviewed by I. Kozlov. Al- though agreeing that Leonov has returned to the past for his theme, the reviewer considers that he meant his story to be taken in a wider sense; to refer not only to the events of the civil war but also to the second world war, to all who were not strong enough to cope with their lives. Lit. Ross. 10/i/64.

- : discussion by writers on their attitudes to chemicals and the way in which the resolutions of the December Plenum should be re- flected in literature. E.g. the Moscow Union of Children's Writers is preparing an anthology dedicated to chemistry, called 'the Test Tube'. A meeting to discuss further problems is to be held on 25/ii/64. Lit. Ross. 17/i/64.

- - : very critical review of a Chekhovian little story 'Only once in a lifetime' by A. Kucherov(Zvezda, 12/63). Kom. Pravda, 6/ii/64.

- - : a reporter meets one of the heroes of Solzhenitsyn's One day.., now working on the Aurora, and interviews him. The truthfulness of the story is emphasized, including its darkest aspects, and the refusal of most of the prisoners to identify the harm done to them with the party and the system. The article is written in connection with the suggestion to give Solzhenitsyn a Lenin prize. It is taken up by Marshak (Pravda,30/i/64) apparently to argue against those opposing the awarding of the prize 'in fact, this is a novel, not about the camps but about soviet man faced with the hardest task of all'. Izvestiya, 15/i/64.

- : hard-hitting survey of the Solzhenitsyn controversy. Novy mir, 1/64, pp. 223 - 245.

MUSIC: article by D. Shostakovich on 'avant-garde' music. Highly orthodox statements. Sov. muz. 2/64. of T. Khrennikov, Sov. muz. 1/64, p. 1.

THEA TRE: there are still too many critics who like to bully young writers and to pat the old writers indulgently on the back. R. Haal, l/xii/63.

- - : there is no proper school for training variety artists. The two- year old School of Variety and Circus Artists, and the all-Russian Workshop for Variety Artists are inadequate. The artists do not receive proper training. Sov. kult. 23/i/64.

- -: Ryazan. The new producer left the theatre, for health and family reasons, at the beginning of the 1962/3 season but immediately signed on with a Moscow oblast theatre. On 2/ii/63 an open letter from 17 of the young actors in Ryazan was published in Sov. kult. complaining of the theatre programme. They were consequently criticized by the leading actors and party organization, but resigned from the theatre in protest. All of them were from the best theatre schools. This year's season has been equally as poor and dreary as the previous one. Sov. kult. 21/i/64.

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story Petrovka 38 (see Moskva, 9 and 10/63 for the story). Sov. kult. 21/i/64.

OPERA: criticism of opera for its dependence on old productions and old methods of presentation; the harmful influence of cult period on the development of the art. Praise of Katerina Izmailova. Sov. kult. 25/i/64.

MISCELLANEOUS

HOLIDAYS: every year more and more people take a 'wild' holiday in the mountains or sailing down the rivers, rather than a rest in the homes and sanatoria. But facilities for sailing, camping etc. are still poor. Lit. gaz. 19/xii/63.

NATIONALITIES: a report by the Chukch writer Rytheu on life of the Chukch and Eskimoes. The mildness of this and last winter has badly affected the tundra. The snow melts and then freezes, depriving the reindeer of moss, and consequently many have died. The Eskimo settlement has had to move from Naukan to Nuniamo because of the hard climatic conditions; the new Eskimo collective farm at Nuniamo has built proper houses. But the attempt to bring electricity and proper dwellings to the itinerant Chukch herdsman has not been successful. Rytheu remembers how in his youth the American Eskimoes came across the ice and took part in song and dance festivals. Lit. Ross. 10/i/64.

MARRIAGE: demand for making marriage of young women to old men illegal (noted and rejected). Vop. fil. 11/63, p. 78.

PEASANTS: exceptional short novel about the life of milkmaids on a fairly backward kolkhoz; biting comments on byt, hours of work, policy, jour- nalists, planning, love, human attitudes etc. by A. Kuznetsov. Novy mir, 1/64, pp. 1 - 97.

SOCIAL SECURITY: abrogation of a number of legal acts from the period 1925 - 1936. Ved. Verkh. Soy. SSSR, 51/63.

: new rules and rates of dependants' pay for men called up for military service. E.g. 15 r. for two or more children, for non-agricultural, and 7.50 and 12 respectively for agricultural soldiers etc. Ekon. gaz. 22/ii/64, p. 35.

SOCIOLOGY

DEMOGRAPHY AND HYGIENE: important article on the neglect of these two fields from the sociological point of view. Kommunist, 17/63.

LABOUR SURVEY: questionnaire analysis of those making rationalization suggestions at the Kirov Works. Vop. fil. 6/63, p. 37.



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ECONOMIC

ADMINISTRATION

INDUSTRIAL/AGRICULTURAL DIVISION: at the beginning of 1964 none of the ASSRs nor the cities of Moscow and Leningrad northe following oblasts had been divided:

Khabarov krai Amur oblast Arkhangel obl. Astrakhan obl. Vologda obl. Kaliningrad obl. Kamchatka obl. Magadan obl. Murmansk obl. Novgorod obl. Pskov obl. Sakhalin obl. Tomsk obl.

This refers to the RSFSR only. Ved. Verkh. Sov. RSFSR, 51/63, p. 1001-2.

LOCAL INDUSTRY: interviews with oblast and republic heads of repair etc. services (bytupravleniye) including discussion on the formation of these from local industry administrations abolished in 1963. Sl. byta, 1/64, p. 4.

RESEARCH:Kirsanov, director of the Institute of Organic Chemistry, Academy of Sciences USSR, complains of the shortage of testing laboratories or factories for new drugs. The present facilities are inadequate to carry out mass production and testing and this results in valuable discoveries never reaching the market. The Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian republic is now building a special production laboratory which will ease the situation. Rab. gaz. 12/i/64.

- - - : list of economic 'learned councils' (nauchniye sovety) under the Academy of Sciences, with details of work in progress. The councils are:

a) 'Perfection of methods of planning the national economy and of plan indicators' (Chairman: A. Korobov).

b) 'Effectiveness of basic funds, investments and new technique' (T. Khachaturov).

c) 'Problems of price determination' (V. Dyachenko). d) 'Khozrashchet and material inducement to production' (L.

Gatovski). e) 'Economic problems of chemicalization of the economy of the

USSR' (N. Federenko). f) 'Utilization of mathematics and computer technique in eco-

nomic research and planning' (V. Nemchinov). g) 'The economy and organization of production' (L. Prudenski).

Ekon. gaz. 28/xii/63, p. 10.

SOVNARKHOZY: full list of all 47, with names of oblasts composing them, areas, population, capital city and names of chairmen. (Names seem mostly quite unfamiliar.) Ekon. gaz. ll/i/64, p. 34.

STATE COMMITTEES: article deals with the criteria distinguishing state committees from ministries. Sov. gos. i pravo, 11/63 pp. 35 - 44.



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- : another article on the organization and functions of the state committees, and the division of powers between them, the ministries and sovnarkhozy. Sov. gos. i pravo, 1/64, pp. 26 - 32.

ROLE OF COMMUNIST PARTY

PARTY AGENCIES: short articles about the activities of the (Uzbek) Bureau for Agriculture, the Party Committee for the Industrial Zone and the Party- State Control (of the Ivanovo oblast). Ekon. gaz. 25/i/64, p. 4.

ECONOMIC EDUCATION: see EDUCATION.

STANDARD OF LIVING

HOUSING: the case for all housing to be under the soviets rather than under industrial enterprises etc. Examples from the Karelian ASSR showing better and cheaper administration. Zhil. -kom. khoz. 1/64, p. 6.

- -: interesting article on the need to plan housing repairs with hints at when repair as opposed to rebuilding should be considered. Fin. SSSR, 1/64, pp. 64 - 6.

- - : at present in Latvia there are 15 housing cooperatives with 1,362 members, who have paid 2 m. r. and received 21/ m. r. in bank loans. 21 houses with 1,206 flats (38,000 sq. metres) are being built with this. Riga has taken the lead in encouraging cooperatives; the other towns so far have shown little interest. Sov. Lat. 15/ii/64.

- - - : semi-technological article on the planning of housing construction; interesting for the variety of planning methods indicated. Zhil. stroi. 2/64, p. 5.

- - see LAW.

STATISTICAL DATA: annual increase in money incomes of all citizens, net of taxes and loan subscriptions, averaged 5.4 mlrd. new r. in the nine years 1954-62. Also details of average cost of dental treatment, medical consul- tation, appendicitis operation, birth etc. met by state. Ekon.gaz. 28/xii/ /63, pp. 8- 9.

LABOUR AND WAGES

LABOUR-DISCIPLINE: causes of absenteeism analysed. Absences 'with the permission of the management' twice as high in Georgia and Armenia as elsewhere in the USSR. Ekon. gaz. 1/ii/64, p. 6.

NORMS: interesting konsultatsiya on the procedure of norm-revision. Sots. trud. 12/63, pp. 133 ff.

OVERTIME: statement of legal situation. Note that overtime cannot be com- pensated by extra time off; only by money. Ekon. gaz. 18/i/64, p. 33.

PREMIA: comprehensive and useful account of all the existing regulations on premia for workers, white-collar workers, and administrative personnel in industry. (All appropriate laws quoted, and references to where they are to



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be found.) Sots. zak. 11/63, pp. 72 - 76. - : interesting article on the disagreements which arise between

management and workers in the application of the premia system. Sov. yust. 10/63, pp. 4- 6.

- : (managerial) details of rules now based primarily on cost reductions, provided output plans are fulfilled. Top rates are 15% for fulfilment of cost plans plus 1.5% for every 0.1% cost reduction in excess of plan. Also 3 - 5% premium for output plan fulfilment. Ekon. gaz. 25/i/64, supp. p. 9.

RAIL TRANSPORT: article by head of transport department of Central Com- mittee. Data on labour productivity (impressive increases), and references to use of electronic computers. Ekon. gaz. 28/xii/63, pp. 6 - 7.

TRAINING: specific function of the State Committee on Professional and Technical Education in providing for the right amount and kinds of labour at the right times and places. E.g. 'mechanisers' in Tselinny krai and workers for the production of mineral fertilizer. Prof.-tekh. obraz. 12/63, p. 3.

- - : article on ways of increasing training of new young workers at lower cost in the vocational schools for the South-Urals Sovnarkhoz. Prof. -tekh. obraz. 12/63, p. 12.

WAGES: supplement devoted to wages. Average increase in money wages in recent years has been 2.5 - 3% p. a. The minimum wage has been raised to 40 - 50r. Wage reform led to large increases in some industries e.g. coal industry + 37%,sovkhozy + 21% etc. Details of tariff setka, proportions of various kinds of piece-work and time-work. (NB: fall in 'progressive piece- work' from 27% to 1.7% of total.) Wages planning described in detail. Ekon. gaz. 25/i/64, supp.

- : new wage tariff in the coal industry (underground workers) for 6-hour day, inclusive of night work supplement. Decree of the Presidium of all- Union TU Council 31/i/64: (per day in rubles)

I II III IV V VI VII 3.20 4.00 5.00 6.00 7.50 8.00 9.00 Ekon. gaz. 22/ii/64, p. 35.

ECONOMIC THEORY

GROUP A v. GROUP B: in an article by A. Efimov, on the capital-saving effect of the chemical industry, it is argued that, with a given rate of growth, the closer are the rates of growth of A and B the greater the efficiency of the economy. Vop. ekon. 1/64, p. 12. Cf. A. Azumanyan (Pravda, 25/ii/64) who radically revises the hitherto orthodox view that a faster rate of growth of A is superior.

RATES OF GROWTH: indignant denial of the C.I.A. figures on the slow-down in the rate of growth. Spulber and Campbell cited as sensible and objective critics. Ekon. gaz. 25/i/64, p. 2.

VARGA: in a general survey of Historical Science in the USSR it is suggested that Varga's position in the 1947 discussion on State Capitalism in the West was the correct one. Vop. ist. 1/64, pp. 124 - 5.



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INDUSTRIAL PLANNING

BANKRUPTCY: Decree of CM USSR, with amended rules for declaring enterprises insolvent; also rules for credits. Ekon. gaz. 15/ii/64, p. 34.

LOCA TION: arguments against current concentration of industry in particular areas and in towns; industrial location in rural areas as a means of pro- moting agriculture. Data examples. Vop. fil. 11/63, pp. 66 - 74.

PLANNING PROCEDURE: construction trusts receive their yearly plans in February, sometimes as late as March. Consequently, for the first months of the year they work without a plan on objects that they hope will later be included in it. If, on receiving the plan, the half-finished object is not included, work stops and it remains unfinished. Criticism of Gosplan and Gosstroi for the situation. Trud, 18/i/64, p. 2.

COSTING, PRICES, INCENTIVES (INDUSTRIAL)

PRICES: to interest enterprises in improving quality, it is urged that sovnarkhozy should have the power to increase prices temporarily where new or improved varieties of a product are in heavy demand. Ekon. gaz. 25/i/64, p. 5.

SUCCESS INDICATORS: plans for metal-goods in tons encourage waste of metal, discourage economy. Yet although reform has been urged, there is no agreement on an alternative basis, therefore plans are still in tons. The critic urges the use of conversion coefficients to express plan in 'corrected tons' (privedenny tonnazh). Ekon. gaz. 18/i/64, p. 7.

. -. . . ?: gross output indicators do not reflect consumer demand e.g. the use of tons produces enamelware that is too heavy. The article recommends that the practice of 'firms' shops' that is found in Lvov and Kiev be adopted elsewhere. Demand can then be studied, Ekon. gaz. 25/i/64, p. 5.

. -. ....- : report on a decree on the changing of other economic indicators of enterprises when one indicator is changed. Ekon. gaz. 15/ii/64, p. 34.

: report of the Learned Council of the Academy of Sciences on the use of normativnaya stoimost obrabotki to replace gross output as a measure of plan fulfilment. Further study and experiments recommended. Ekon. gaz. 22/ii/64, p. 34.

-.-.-.--: the chairman of the Estonian Sovnarkhoz states that in 1963 for the first time changes in the output plan were followed by changes in other economic indicators of enterprises. Ekon. gaz. 22/ii/64, p. 9.

WHOLESALE PRICES: new wholesale prices for heavy industry with effect from 1/i/65. Several basic building materials to cost more. New prices will eliminate some glaring inter-republican discrepancies and this will result in cost reductions to high-cost republics. Criticism of prices of spare parts which discourage production. Ekon. gaz. 18/i/64, pp. 8, 10.

- .-.-.--: new indices of industrial wholesale prices, with and without turnover tax, appear for the first time since the war in Narodnoye khozyaistvo v 1962 g. pp. 144 - 6.



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AGRICULTURE

FARM SIZE: article on the size of agricultural enterprises in the Soviet' Union (by G. Kotov). :Mezhd. sel. zh. 1/64.

KOLKHOZ: (amalgamations) occuring in Uzbekistan, publicised on page 1. Object being to link successful with unsuccessful so as to raise up the latter. Sel. zhizn, 26/xii/63.

-. : (machine-maintenance) use in Ukraine of Selkhoztekhnika to main- tain kolkhoz machinery on contract. This avoids break-downs with which the kolkhozy were unable to cope. Ekon. gaz. 15/ii/64, p. 6.

- - : (market) a kolkhoz chairman argues that although his kolkhoz has changed over to selling all its produce through the cooperative network, the kolkhoz market is still a valuable institution. The cooperatives are not as yet developed enough to absorb the kolkhoz market although this is their long term aim. Discussion of the problem appears in previous numbers of the newspaper. R. Haal, 15/vi/63, 21/viii/63, 22/i/64.

- - (pay) article on cost calculation (by E. Karnaukhova). Not even attempted before 1955. In 1956-61 the official line was to value labour at sovkhoz rates of pay, but in some republics it was valued at actual pay. From September 1962 the latter method officially approved. Author dis- cusses the application of Marxist value theory to kolkhoz costs. (Kolkhoz pay 1.7 times lower than sovkhoz pay). Kolkh.-sovkh. proiz. 1/64, pp.34-6.

- - : (pay) a description of the pay rules in a prosperous kolkhoz near Moscow. Fixed money rates; they vary from 1.70r. per tariff-day to 7.20r.; the top rate is for tractor drivers, the bottom for the least-skilled field- workers. There is also an elaborate system of bonuses in cash and kind. Ekon. gaz. 25/i/64, p. 17-8.

- - : (pay) a critical report on a collective farm in the Yelnyansk raion. The chairman and other administrative workers have become proper kulaks and are interested only in their earnings - the chairman gets 500r. a month on the bases of 31/2 trudodni per day and premia, whereas the

ordinary workers only perhaps /2 trudoden per day. Oktyabr, 2/64, p. 166.

LABOUR: organization of labour in kolkhozy and sovkhozy. Details of bri- gades in field and livestock work. Role of 'mechanized links' (zvena) in field-work. Numbers of these have increased rapidly since 1958. Ekon. gaz. l/ii/64, supp.

PRICES: (cotton) new purchase and delivery prices (rubles/ton) for harvest of 1963. Purchase prices:

I. Soviet Varieties (except Type 18819) Industrial Grades I II III IV

a. Collective farms in Azerbaijan and Kazakh SSR 450 390 330 230

b. Collective farms in Kirgiz SSR 430 360 310 220 c. Collective farms elsewhere 418 350 300 210

II. Soviet Varieties of Type 18819 All-Union 470 400 340 230

Delivery prices are increased by 12% on the average. Zakupi sel. prod. 4/63, p. 3.

- : (beans - fasol) new purchase prices beginning with 1963 harvest. Depending on grade are now from 300 to 400 r./ton of grain of basic con-



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ditions as against the previously effective price of 180-220 r./ton. Zakupki sel. prod. 5/63, p. 10.

- : (sugar beet) new purchase and delivery prices. Both kinds of prices are increased by 18% on the average from their 1962 level. In addition, each farm has the right to purchase the following quantities at the following prices for each quintal of sugar beet purchased or received by the state:

1 kg. of molasses (patoka) at 20 r./ton 50 kgs. of pulp (zhom) (v svezhem vide) at 0.80 r./ton

1 kg. of mixed fodder (kombikorm) at the existing retail prices. This should increase the income of state and collective farms of Vinnitsa oblast in 1963 by 16,192 thousand r. (when comparison is made with prices effective in 1962). In addition, the farms will purchase 1.8 m. quintals of pulp, 360 thousand quintals of molasses and 360 thousand quintals of mixed fodder for an overall total of 4,860 thousand r. Zakupki sel. prod. 11/63, p. 24.

- : (potatoes) new purchase and delivery prices, beginning with 1963 harvest.

A. Large, choice potatoes (krupny, otborny kartofel): kartofel): September - December 100 r./ton From January 1 120 r./ton

B. Ordinary food and technical potatoes: September - December 60 r./ton* From January 1 80 r./ton

*the price effective previously was 40 r./ton. These are apparently all-Union prices. Zakupki sel. prod. 10/63, p. 26.

SOIL EROSION: devastating reportage on soil erosion in Altai; damage done by wrong methods of cultivation; by the elimination of fallow, use of wrong equipment, timid agronomists who obey stupid orders. Monoculture con- demned, grasses ana fallow essential to save the soil. Novy mir, 1/64, pp. 166 - 185.

SOVKHOZ: (optimum size) entire supplement devoted to this topic, with careful attention to various regions and product specialization. Ekon. gaz. 28/xii/63, p. 21 ff.

- - (wages) tariffs of wage earners, categories I-VI, ratio 1:1.80; for work by hand and with horses. For piece-rate workers these represent from 1.72 to 3.09 r. per day (time rates from 1.56 to 2.81 r.).For tractormen the rates are much higher, with maximum piece-rate as high as 6.50. (These are all tariff rates.) Ekon. gaz. 22/ii/64, p. 21.

SPECIALISTS: discussion on the training of agronomy- and suggestions on changes. Kom. Pravda, 4-7/ii/64.

STATE PURCHASES: answers to questions about the rules for kontraktatsiya which now apply to all purchases. It is stated that the procedure known as counterpart sales (vstrechnaya prodazha) no longer applies. Ekon. gaz. 25/i/64, p. 20:

INTERNAL TRADE

RETAIL TRADE: report on conference on consumer demand and market



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research. Proposal to create Institute for study of consumption. Serious lack of trade economists. Ekon. gaz. 11/i/64, p. 16.

WHOLESALE TRADE: letter from Struyev, Chairman of USSR Trade Com- mittee, reporting the concentration of wholesale trade in consumer goods under the wholesale agencies of the USSR Trade Committee, and the liquidation of the central and scme republican wholesale organs of Cen- trsoyuz. Ekon. gaz. 25/i/64, p. 46.

FOREIGN TRADE

COMECON BANK: agreement on multilateral trade within Comecon and establishment of International Bank of Economic Cooperation. Use is to be made of a transferable ruble (1 gramme of gold) against each country's quota, and special credits are to be granted. Size of quotas to correspond to share of trade. USSR has 116 m. of the total ?300 m. capital, GDR 55, CSR 45, Poland 27 m. Use of transferable ruble by non-bloc countries is envisaged. (Constitution of the Bank is given.) Ved. Verkh. Sov. SSSR, 7/64, art. 83. (Ratification 25/i/64, Ved. 5/64).

....- . to finance multilateral trade settlement, came into operation on 1/i/64. Intention to expand its activities rapidly. Ekon. gaz. 11/i/64, p. 30.

COIMECON: specialization on different types of machinery with, since 1962, planning of bilateral specialization in components. Ekon. gaz. 18/i/64, p. 20.

- - : 'some questions of coordinating capital investments' - discussion of specialization. Author urges the use of foreign-trade prices to encourage or discourage particular countries to produce particular.items. Urges also the calculation of a kind of international opportunity-cost with appropriate time discounts. Ekon. gaz. 25/i/64, p. 30.

- -: article by deputy-premier of Hungary on specialization; e.g. that Hungary be provided with cheap fuel to produce aluminium. Some examples of equipment specialization. He urges cooperation in research. Ekon. gaz. 1/ii/64, p. 17.

-- : article on legal character of recommendations of Comecon which are not obligatory, but can be transformed into international agreements if accepted by States to whom they are addressed (precisely as in the case of recommendations of UN and other international institutions). Sov. gos. i pravo, 12/63.

RATIFICATION: Agreements with Poland on Polish trains in transit over part of Soviet railways and with Yugoslavia on utilization of atomic energy for peaceful purposes; ratifications of the New York Convention on Narco- tics, 1961 (with reservations) and London Protocol, 1963, on prolongation of the term of Agreement on Sugar, 1958 (with reservations to Art. 3, 10 and 13). Ved. Verkh. Sov. SSSR, 52/63.

- - : Convention on Privileges and Immunities of the Danube Commission, 1963. Ved. Verkh. Sov. SSSR, 1/64.

- - - : New York Agreement on coffee, 1962. Ved. Verkh. Sov. SSSR, 3/64.

.- - - : Protocol to the Agreement with Afganistan, 1961, on eco-



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nomic and technical cooperation with list of works to be done by Soviet organizations. Ved. Verkh. Sov. SSSR, 7/64 (Ratified 2/xii/63).

- - - : Trade Agreement with Dahomey; Convention on cultural cooperation with Tanganyika; Agreements with Afganistan on (i) utilization of atomic energy for peaceful purposes and (ii) on technical aid by the USSR in the organization of the extraction and exploitation of natural gas in northern regions of Afganistan. Ved. Verkh. Sov. SSSR, 8/64.

CONTRACT OF SALE: article on legal characteristic of foreign trade contract of sale: Soviet trade delegations abroad act as agents of Soviet State and therefore USSR is the party of contract; on the contrary Soviet trade organizations as independent juridicial persons act in their own name in foreign trade transactions and therefore USSR is not liable for their obligations. Sov. gos. i pravo, 11/63.

STATISTICS

'FIRMS' AND OUTPUT STATISTICS: experience in the Lvov area. Some figures are misleading. The effect of grouping enterprises together into a firm was to reduce double-counting and so to cut the value of gross output. Ekon. gaz. l/ii/64, p. 9.

NATIONAL INCOME: a new item appears in Narodnoye khozyaistvo v 1962 g. The Soviet national income is given in dollars, converted at a calculated (not official) exchange rate. 165.1 m.r. and $198.0m. (i.e. not 1:1).

VITAL STATISTICS: specific fertility rates by 5-year groups of women for 1938/9, 1957/8, 1958/9, and 1960/1. Vest. stat. 1/64, pp. 34 - 43.



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CENTRAL ORGANS OF ECONOMIC ADMINISTRATION

1 Union Selkhoz- tekhnika

The State Commission on Reserves of Minerals

I (4)

State Committees

Stban

_ Stroibank

I



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1 MINISTRIES:

Foreign Trade Merchant Marine Transport Communications Agriculture Finance

2 STATE COMMITTEES OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS:

Labour and Wages External Economic Relations The Purchase of Agricultural Commodities Trade

3 STATE PRODUCTION COMMITTEES:

The Gas Industry Medium Machine Building Fuel, Power & Electrification

4 STATE COMMITTEES (UNDER VSNKh):

Coordination of Scientific Research Aviation Technology Defence Technology Radio - Electronics Electronic Technology Shipbuilding Utilization of Atomic Energy Inventions & Discoveries Standards, Measures & Measuring Equipment Geology

5 STATE COMMITTEES (UNDER GOSSTROI):

The 'Building Materials Industry Civil Construction & Architecture Building & Road-making Equipment Manufacture

6 STATE PRODUCTION COMMITTEES:

Transport Construction Installations & Special Construction Central Asian Construction

7 STATE INDUSTRIAL COMMITTEES (UNDER GOSPLAN ):

Heavy, Power & Transport Machine-building

N. Patolichev* V. Bakaev* B. Beshchev* N. Psurtsev* I. Volovchenko* V. Garbuzov*

A. Volkov** S. Skachkov** L. Korniets* A. Struyev*

A. Kortunov* E. Slavski* P. Neporozhni*

K. Rudnevx P. Dementev* S. Zverev* V. Kalmykov* A. Shokin* B. Butoma* A. Petrosyants** Yu. Maksarev** V. Boitsov** A. Sidorenko*

I. Grishmanov* M. Posokhin* E. Novoselov*

E. Kozhevnikov* F. Yakubovski* V. Gushchin*

A. Topchiev*



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Chemical & Oil Machine-building L. Kostandov* K. Brezhov***

Motor-tractor & Agricultural Machine-building N. Strokin* Machine-building A. Kostousov* Automation, Control Systems & Instrument Manufacture M. Rakovski* Electrical Technology N. Obolenski* Ferrous & Non-ferrous Metallurgy V. Boiko* Fuel Industry N. Melnikov* Chemical & Oil Industry N. Baibakov* Oil refining and Petro-chemicals Industry V. Fedorov*** Timber, Cellulose-paper & Wood-working Industry

& Forestry G. Orlov* Light Industry N. Tarasov* Food Industry P. Naumenko*

Heads of some of the other organizations (the complete list is to be found in Ekon. gaz. - see below).

D. Ustinov* P. Lomako* V. Dymshits* I. Novikov*

Gosbank Union Selkhoztekhnika The Central Statistical Office The State Commission on

Reserves of Minerals

First Deputy Chairman All Deputy Chairmen of the Council of Ministers

A. Poskonov** A. Ezhevski** V. Starovski**

I. Malyshev

*Ministers **Chairmen or heads (not Ministers)

***Pravda, 25 January 1964, reports the appointment of K. Brezhov as chairman of the State Committee and that of V. Fedorov to a newly created or re-named State Committee. Both have Ministerial status.

xDeputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers

Source: Ekon. gaz. 4/i/64, p. 34.

VSNKh Gosplan SNKh USSR Gosstroi



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THE ORGANIZATION OF FUEL AND POWER IN THE USSR

STATE PRODUCTION COMMITTEE ON FUEL, POWER AND ELECTRIFICATION

OF THE USSR

REPUBLICAN MINISTRIES OF FUEL, POWER AND ELECTRIFICATION

Kazakhstan Uzbekistan Ukraine

BOARDS OF THE COUNCILS' OF MINISTERS ON FUEL, POWER AND ELECTRIFICATION'

Azerbaij an Armenia Belorussia Estonia Georgia Kirgizia Latvia Lithuania Moldavia Tajikistan Turkmenia

REGIONAL FUEL AND POWER BOARDS2

Central Eastern North-Western Southern Urals

DEPARTMENTS FOR THE COORDINATION AND CONTROL OF POWER SYSTEMS

1 Republican Ministries and Boards .ordinate to the State Production Republican Councils of Ministers.

TRUSTS

Construction3 Building and

Installation Fitting-out and

Assembly4

INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES

Building Industry Machine-building Repair Shops

DEPARTMENT OF HYDRO- ELECTRIC STA TION CONSTRUCTION

BOARDS OF MANAGEMENT OF ELECTRICITY STATIONS UNDER CONSTRUCTION

INSTITUTES

Engineering/Design5 Scientific Research

SECONDARY TECHNICAL SCHOOLS

OFFICES OF MATERIAL AND TECHNICAL SUPPL Y

ORSy6

of the Councils' of Ministers are both sub- Committee as well as being organs of the

2 The functions of the RSFSR Ministry of Fuel and Power which was dissolved in the spring of 1963 are fulfilled by the USSR State Production Committee.

3 The division of functions between the first two types of Trust and the second

two types is very uncertain.

4 Butterworth's Dictionary of Social Science Terms defines Montazhny as Assembly and Installation of Equipment including Testing and Inspection.



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5 Proyektny, see note on this term under Ministry of Transport.

6 Departments responsible for the organization of special private shops, canteens etc. for employees.

Source: Ekon. gas. 25/i/64, p. 34.

THE ORGANIZATION OF RAILWAY TRANSPORT IN THE USSR

MIANISTRY OF TRANSPORT

I REGIONAL OPERA TING BOARDS

1. Baltic (Riga) 2. Belorussian (Minsk) 3. Caucasian (Tbilisi) 4. Central Asian (Tashkent) 5. Dnieper (Dnepropetrovsk) 6. Donets (Donetsk) 7. East Siberian (Irkutsk) 8. Far Eastern (Khabarovsk) 9. Gorki (Gorki)

10. Kazakh (Alma-Ata) 11. Kuibyshev (Kuibyshev) 12. Lvov (Lvov) 13. Moscow (Moscow) 14. Northern (Yaroslavl) 15. North Caucasian (Rostov) 16. October (Leningrad) 17. Odessa-Kishinev (Odessa) 18. Southern (Kharkov) 19. South Eastern (Voronezh) 20. South Urals (Chelyabinsk) 21. South Western (Kiev) 22. Sverdlovsk (Sverdlovsk) 23. Volga (Saratov) 24. Zabaikal (Chita)


1. Rolling stock

repair shops & the production of spare parts

2. Electrical & technical equipment

PRO YE KTNO- KONS TRUKTORSKI YE BURO2

INSTITUTES

1. Scientific research

2. Specialist training

3. Proyektniye

SPECIALIST TECHNICAL SCHOOLS

1 Engineering/Design Institutes responsible for the production of standard designs (tipichniye proyekty) of equipment and development of new ideas and methods.

2 Drawing and Design Offices responsible for producing detailed plans of the various investment projects undertaken by the Ministry. The exact division of responsibility between these two sorts of organization is still unclear.

Source: Ekon. gaz. 1/ii/64, p. 33.



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THE ORGANIZATION OF THE GAS INDUSTRY IN THE USSR

STATE PRODUCTION COMMITTEE FOR THE GAS INDUSTRY USSR

BOARDS OF MANAGEMENT OF ENTERPRISES UNDER CONSTRUCTION

GAS INDUSTRY INSPECTORATES

OFFICES OF MA TERIAL AND TECHNICAL SUPPLY

TRUSTS Geological Exploration Construction Montazhniye5

Welding and Installation Composite Special Works


Storage Dumps Underground Gas Storage Underground Combustion

of Coal Utilization of the Earth's

Heat Liquid and Rare Gases Gas Equipment Construction Materials Special Machines and

Equipment Repair Shops

TERRITORIAL ADMINISTRATIVE BOARDS

COORDINATING DEPARTMENT FOR MAIN GAS PIPE-LINE SYSTEMS

PIPE-LINE CONSTRUCTION SCHOOLS

ORSy1

INSTITUTES, STATIONS, SKB 2

Proyektniye3 Scientific Research Research and Design4 Experimental Norm Research Heat Research

REGIONAL GAS PIPE-LINE BOARDS Donets Gorki Grozny Kazan Kiev Krasnodar Leningrad Minsk Moscow Tashkent Trans-Caucasia Ufa Kharkov

BOARDS OF THE COUNCILS' OF MINISTERS ON GASIFICATION 6

Azerbaijan Armenia Belorussia Estonia Georgia

Latvia Lithuania RSFSR Turkmenia8 Ukraine

1 See The Organization of Fuel and Power, note 6.

2 Spetsialniye konstruktorskiye buro.

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4 Proyektro-issledovatelskiye.

5 See The Organization of Fuel and Power, note 4.

6 In the schematic diagram the line of subordination from the State Production Com- mittee is represented by a broken line. This is not the case for the Boards subordinate to the State Committee on Fuel Power and Electrification.

7 In these Republics the Glavgaz is in the Ministry of Housing and Local Services (konmurnalnovo khozyaistva).

8 Board of Gas and Petroleum in Turkmenia.

An account of the Committee's responsibilities is contained in Ekon. gaz. It is interesting to note that the committee is responsible for oil pipe-lines, and the storage of petroleum and petroleum products. It is also responsible for water pipe-lines in Tselinny Krai. Ekon. gaz. 8/ii/64, p.34.

SOVNARKHOZ ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION

Ekonomicheskaya gazeta 18/i/64 contains a schematic diagram of the administrative organization of the Volgo-Vyatski Sovnarkhoz. The Sovet itself is assisted by a Technical and Economic (advisory) Council and the work is carried out by a number of departments. These are divided into functional and industrial branch departments. The branch departments in any sovnarkhoz depend upon the industries that it administers. The functional

departments are more or less the same in all sovarkhozy. A number of differences are given in Ekon. gaz. Below we publish a list of the functional

departments of the Volgo-Vyatski Sovnarkhoz:

Production Department Finance Department Technical Division External Relations Dept. Economic Planning Dept. Quality Control Inspectorate Capital Construction Dept. Industrial Accident Prevention

(with a specialised design Internal Administration Dept.1 and planning section) Legal Dept. and Arbitration

Engineering and Power Dept. Dept. of Industrial Security Labour and Wages Dept. Housing and Child-welfare Dept. Personnel and Education Dept. of Consumer Goods and Central Accounts Dept. Cultural Services

1 IUpravleniye delami: literally the Department of Affairs but presumably responsible for the administration of the Sovnarkhoz offices.



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THE REORGANIZATION OF SOVIET PUBLISHING

A State Committee of the Council of Ministers on the Press has been formed. The publishing organizations, renamed and regrouped, have been

brought under this central organization: (The list given here is not exhaus-

tive.)

NEW TITLE

Izdatelstvo politicheskoi literatury (Politizdat)

Izdatelstvo sotsialno-ekonomicheskoi

literatury (Iz-vo Mysl)

Iz-vo literatury po planirovaniyu i konkretnoi ekonomike (Iz-vo Ekonomika)

Iz-vo Yuridicheskaya literatura

Iz-vo Mezhdunarodniye otnosheniya Iz-vo Statistika

Iz-vo Finansy

Vneshtorgizdat Iz-vo literatury po voprosam selsi

khozyaistva (Iz-vo Kolos) Iz-vo Khudozhestvennaya literatura

Iz-vo Vysshaya shkola

Iz-vo Sovetski pisatel

PREVIOUS TITLE

Gospolitizdat An amalgamation of Sotsekgiz,

Iz-vo VPSh pri TsK KPSS and AON pri Tsk KPSS and Iz-vo geograficheskoi literatury

An amalgamation of Ekonomizdat, Gostorgizdat and Iz-vo Tsentro- soyuza

Gosyurizdat

Iz-vo IMO

Gosstatizdat

Gosfinizdat

Vneshtorgizdat An amalgamation of Selkhoz-

izdat and Zagotizdat Goslitizdat

Vysshaya shkola, Rosvuzizdat and Proftekhizdat

Iz-vo Sovetski pisatel

The addresses of these and other bodies are given as well as the names of some publishers independent of the State Committee. Ekon. gaz. l/ii/64, pp. 33-4.



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Table of abbreviations and corresponding titles of

newspapers and journals

Newspapers:

Comm. Ekon. gaz. Izvestiya Kommunist (Armenia) Kom. pravda Lit. and cult. Lit. gaz. Lit. Ross. Lit. Ukr. Pravda Pravda Ukr. Rab. gaz. R. Haal Red. Uz. Sel. zh. Scc. Kaz. Sov. Est. Sov. kult. Sov. Lat. Sov. Ross. Sov. Taj. (T) Sov. Taj. (U) Sov. Turk. Trud Uch. gaz. Zarya vost.

Communist (Baku, Azeri) Ekonomicheskaya gazeta

Komsomolskaya pravda Literature and Culture (Baku, Azeri) Literatumaya gazeta Literatumaya Rossiya Literatuma Ukraina

Pravda Ukraina Rabochaya gazeta Rahva Haal Red Uzbekistan (Uzbek) Selskaya zhizn Socialist Kazakhstan (Kazakh) Sovetskaya Estoniya Sovetskaya kultura Sovetska Latviya Sovetskaya Rossiya Soviet Tajikistan (Tajik) Soviet Tajikistan (Uzbek) Soviet Turkmenistan (Turkmen)

Uchitelskaya gazeta Zarya vostoka

Periodicals:

Byull. Verkh. Suda SSSR Fin. SSSR Gor. khoz. Moskvy Kn. torg. Kolkh.-sovkh. proiz. Kommunist Isk. kino Mezhd. sel. zh. Moskva Novy mir Ogonek Oktyabr Part. zh. Prof.-tekh. obraz. Rad. pravo S1. byta

Byulleten Verkhovnovo Suda SSSR Finansy SSSR Gorodskoye khozyaistvo Moskvy Knizhnaya torgovlya Kolkhozno-sovkhoznoye proizvodstvo

Iskusstvo kino Mezhdunarodny selskokhozyaistvenny zhurnal

Partiinaya zhizn Professionalno-tekhnicheskoye obrazovaniye Radyanske pravo Sluzhba byta



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Sots. zak. Sots. trud Sov. muz. Sov. pechat Sov. yust. Sov. gos. i pravo Ved. Verkh. Sov. RSFSR Ved. Verkh. Sov. SSSR Ved. Verkh. Suda SSSR V.L.U. (Ek. Fil. Pr.)

Vest. stat. V. v. shkoly Vop. ekon. Vop. fil. Vop. ist.

Vop. ist. KPSS Yunost Zakupki sel. prod. Zhil.-komm. khoz. Zhil. stroi. Zvezda

CM Council of Ministers ha hectare m. million

Sotsialisticheskaya zakonnost Sotsialisticheski trud Sovetskaya muzika Sovetskaya pechat Sovetskaya yustitsiya Sovetskoye gosudarstvo i pravo Vedomosti Verkhovnovo Soveta RSFSR Vedomosti Verkhovnovo Soveta SSSR Vedomosti Verkhovnovo Suda SSSR Vestnik Leningradskovo Universiteta

(Ekonomika, Filosofiya, Pravo) Vestnik statistiki Vestnik vysshei shkoly Voprosi ekonomiki Voprosi filosofii Voprosi istorii

Voprosi istorii KPSS

Zakupki selskokhozyaistvennykh produktov Zhilishchno-kommunalnoye khozyaistvo Zhilishchnoye stroitelstvo

A bbreviations:

mlrd. milliard (thousand million)

r. ruble



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