On the Construction of Cities During the Transition to Communism

Abstract

>p>The practical solution of the problem of population as social and economic distinctions between town and village are obliterated is closely tied up with the historically conditioned balance of a country's urban and rural population.>/p>>p>Soviet society inherited from tsarist Russia a highly irrational structure of industry which made for a corresponding unevenness in the distribution of productive forces and population in its territory.>/p>>p>Socialism creates completely new conditions and laws governing population in comparison with capitalism. We may find the fundamental propositions of an analysis of the basic features of distribution of population under socialism in the works of the classics of Marxism-Leninism.>/p>