State Scientific And Technical Policy Of The Ussr In The Mid-1950s
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On the basis of archival documents, which have now become available, the problem of the organisation of scientific and research work in the USSR in the mid-1950s is studied. Reports sent to the CPSU Central Committee by the leadership of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the State Committee for New Technology of the USSR Council of Ministers allow us to assess, to a greater degree of reliability, the state of the scientific and technical complex of the country in the mid-1950s, to analyse the conclusions and recommendations of leading scientists, to identify the factors that determined the technological lag in a number of very important areas of the Soviet Union. The authors of the documents, which were classified, stated not the lagging behind of the Soviet Union in this period, but the potential advantages of the Soviet structure, which, however, were not sufficiently utilised. The country in the period under study had a powerful scientific and technological complex, and the achievements were very significant, but the organisation of research and development work, especially the process of introducing R&D into civilian production, was not efficient enough. The conclusion is formulated that a number of reasons for the inhibition can be rightfully attributed to the flaws of planning, failure to provide the declared indicators with sufficient material and human resources, lack of a coordination between industries.
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Vladimirovna, B. E., Viktorovich, K. V., & Khasambekovich, S. Z. (2024). State Scientific And Technical Policy Of The Ussr In The Mid-1950s. In D. K. Bataev (Ed.), PROOF: Social and Cultural Transformations in the Context of Modern Globalism (SCTCMG 2023), vol 135. European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences (pp. 79-85). European Publisher. https://doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2024.10.10