J. V.
STALIN

ECONOMIC PROBLEMS
OF
SOCIALISM
IN THE
U.S.S.R.



FOREIGN LANGUAGES PRESS
PEKING 1972

First Edition 1972


Prepared © for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo, [email protected] (May 1997)
(Corrected and Updated August 2000)


PUBLISHER'S NOTE



C O N T E N T S


REMARKS ON ECONOMIC QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE
  NOVEMBER 1951 DISCUSSION


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Character of Economic Laws Under Socialism
Commodity Production Under Socialism
The Law of Value Under Socialism
Abolition of the Antithesis Between Town and Country,
and Between Mental and Physical Labour, and the
Elimination of the Distinction Between Them
Disintegration of the Single World Market and
Deepening of the Crisis of the World Capitalist System
Inevitability of Wars Between Capitalist Countries
The Basic Economic Laws of Modern Capitalism and of
Socialism
Other Questions
International Importance of a Marxist Textbook on
Political Economy
Ways of Improving the Draft Textbook on Political
Economy

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REPLY TO COMRADE ALEXANDER ILYICH NOTKIN

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CONCERNING THE ERRORS OF COMRADE L. D. YAROSHENKO

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II.

Comrade Yaroshenko's Chief Error
Other Errors of Comrade Yaroshenko

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REPLY TO COMRADES A. V. SANINA AND V. G. VENZHER

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2.

Character of the Economic Laws of Socialism
Measures for Elevating Collective-Farm Property to the
Level of Public Property

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NOTES


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