Socioeconomic Questions Relating to Automation

In the Soviet Union, the building of communism and continual scientific and technical progress are intertwined. All the grandiose plans and concrete tasks pertaining to the rapid development of the productive forces, to the continual growth of labor productivity, and to the constant rise in the material well-being and cultural level of the people are inseparably linked with plans and tasks relating to the development of science and technology, and a r e based on technical progress.

Further Improvement of Economic Planning Methods

A little over three years have passed since the Seventh Session of the USSR Supreme Soviet adopted the Law on the Further Improvement of Industrial and Construction Management. The successes achieved during this brief period of time in every sphere of economic development show that the reorganization has created new opportunities for the constructive efforts of the Soviet people, for their active participation in economic management. The Party Central Committee and the USSR Council of Ministers noted in their decision of April 7, 1960 that the setting up of the economic councils had made it possible to raise planning work to a new, higher stage and substantially to increase the role of the Union Republics and local planning bodies in the planning of the economy. Strong planning bodies have been set up in the Union Republics, capable of planning the economy of the republics and districts.

From the Economic History of Russian Industry

A number of special books, journal articles, and historical-economic monographs have been concerned with the economics of Russian industry during the first world war. However, these works have not fully met the tasks of studying the war economy of Russia during 1914-1917 and therefore the appearance of new scientific investigations devoted to this problem are to be welcomed. In I. V. Maevskii's monograph an attempt is made to analyze the regularities of development of Russian industry during the first world war, to show the quantitative and qualitative changes that occurred in it during this period. As a whole, the attempt is successful. The book under review gives a quite adequate and complete picture of the condition of Russian industry in 1914-1917.

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Abstract -Experimental results are presented on the measurement of a holographic (phase-contrast) image of a boric fiber (100-µ m-diameter boric cylinder with a 20-µ m-diameter tungsten core) and on radiation focusing by Fresnel zone plates using the Kurchatov synchrotron radiation source. By comparison of the obtained hologram with theoretically calculated data, the vertical size of the source was determined to be 325 ± 25 µ m. This value was also confirmed by measuring the half-width of the direct image of the source. Features of image recording on a photographic film are discussed