The Soviet Educational and Research Revolution: Implications for Management Development

For extensive documentation on this section, see my Management Development and Education in the Soviet Union (Ann Arbor: Bureau of Business and Economic Research, Michigan State University, 1967) and my Soviet Management: With Significant American Comparisons (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1965), esp. chaps. 3, 4, and 12.

Strelchuk N. (Head, Moscow Construction Engineering Institute), Izvestia, March 17, 1963, p. 3 (partial trans. in Current Digest of the Soviet Press [CDSP], XV:11 [1963], 31–32).

Tamm I. , “In Search of Talent,” Soviet Review, March 1962, pp. 28 ff. from Izvestia, Jan. 3, 1962.

See Izvestia, March 14, 1963, p. 3; Elyutin V. , “The Higher School at a New Stage,” Soviet Education, Jan. 1962, pp. 28 ff.; Pravda, July 5, 1961. One Western expert points out that the two notable technological innovations considered to be genuinely Soviet were developed for military application. The Soviets have relied primarily on “borrowed” technology for industry. See Boretsky M. , “Soviet Challenge to U.S. Machine Building,” Dimensions of Soviet Economic Power (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1962), p. 97.

Forty-six reports were presented at the October 1962 meeting. They are contained in Stroitelstva Kommunisina i Obshestvennie Naukii (Moscow: Publishing House of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, 1962).

Fedoseev P. , “To Perfect the Organization of Social Research,” ibid., p. 28.

Plotnikov K. , “Broad Development of Economic Research,” ibid., p. 157.

Arzumanian A. , “Basic Problems of Economic Sciences,” ibid., p. 46.

Aleksandrov A. , “Variety of Scientific Problems Concerning Man,” ibid., pp. 71–74, and Berg A. , “Cybernetics and the Social Sciences,” ibid., pp. 60–64.

Ibid., pp. 62–63.

Some of the important recent published works include: Zdravmyslov A. Yadov V. , “An Experiment in Concrete Research on Attitudes Toward Labor,” Voprosy Filosoffi, No. 4, April 1964 (trans. in CDSP, XVI:20 [1964], 12–17); Yadov , “What the Experience of the Organization and Execution of Concrete Social Research in Leningrad Indicates,” Izvestia (trans. in CDSP, XVII:31 [1965], 8–10); Zdravomyslov , “Sociology: Discoveries and Possibilities,” Sovetskaya Rossia, May 21, 1964, p. 2 (trans. in CDSP, XVI:22 [1964], 12); and Kelle V. , “Sociology's Place and Function in the Soviet System,” Kommunist, Jan. 1965 (partial trans. in CDSP XVII:8 [1965], 3 ff).

See also Shubkin V. , “Concrete Research into Social Processes,” Kommunist, No. 3, Feb. 1965 (trans. in CDSP, XVII:17 [1965], 15–18); Editorial, Kommunist, No. 4, March 1965, pp. 3–14; Sventsitsky A. , “The Questionnaire Seeks to Join the Search,” Sovetskaya Rossia, July 3, 1965, p. 3 (trans. in CDSP, XVII:31 [1965], 10–11); Trapeznikov S. , “Marxism-Leninism: Firm Foundation of Development of the Social Sciences,” Pravda, Oct. 8, 1965 (trans. in CDSP, XVII:40 [1965], 17–19).

Also Lisavtsev E. Masin U. , “On a Scientific Basis—Apply Social Research to Party Work,” Pravda, May 11, 1965, p. 2 (trans. in CDSP, XVII:19 [1965], 11–14); Grushin G. , “Sociology and Sociologist,” Literaturnaya Gazeta, Sept. 25, 1965 (trans. in CDSP, XVII:40 [1965], 15–16); Epshtein S. (review of a book on Western sociology) in Novy Mir, No. 6, 1965, pp. 272–275 (trans. in CDSP, XVII:31 [1965], 11–12; the quantitative Methodrin Sociological Research, in Russian (Novosibirsk and Moscow: Novosibirsk State University Publishing House, 1964); and editorial, “On Two Neglected Fields of Sociological Research,” Kommunist, No. 17, 1963 (partial trans. in CDSP, XVI:5 [1964], 11–14).

In addition to the above sources, interested readers can find translations of recent Soviet articles on the behavioral sciences, primarily sociology, in the journal, Soviet Sociology, published in the United States.

The data in this section are derived from Yadov , 1965, op. cit.; Zdravomyslov , 1964, op. cit.; Yadov Zdravomyslov , 1965, op. cit.; Sventsitsky , 1965, op. cit.; Shubkin , 1965, op. cit.

Ibid.; see also Kelle , 1965, op. cit.; Lisavtsev Masin , 1965, op. cit.; Grushin G. , 1965, op. cit.

Editorial, “Ideological Weapon of the Party,” Kommunist, No. 4, March 1964, pp. 3–14.

Epshtein , 1965, op. cit.

Cf. Yadov , 1965, op. cit., and Grushin , 1965, op. cit.

Ibid.; see also Shubkin , 1965, op. cit.; Kelle , 1965, op. cit.; Sventsitsky , 1965, op. cit.

See esp. Yadov , 1965, op. cit.

Ibid.; see also Zdravomyslov , 1964, op. cit. These sources discuss Polish, Czech, and Hungarian research projects.

Cf. Shubkin , 1965, op. cit.; Grushin , 1965, op. cit.; Sventsitsky , 1965, op. cit.

Yadov , 1965, op. cit.

Kosygin A. , Pravda, Sept. 28, 1965, p. 3 (trans. in CDSP, XVII:38 [1965], 14).

Cf. Pravda, May 10, 1964, p. 4, and Jan. 25, 1965, p. 2; Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta, Sept. 21, 1963, pp. 18–20, and April 1965, pp. 2 ff; Planovoye Khozvaistvo, No. 4, April 1965, pp. 3–10; Izvestia, March 24, 1963; Berg, 1962, op. cit., pp. 54–64; CDSP, XVI:19 (1964) pp. 31 ff.

Kantorovich L. , “Mathematics and Economics,” Aug. 24, 1965, p. 2 (trans. in CDSP, XVII:34 [1965], 7–9). Cf. Izvestia, April 25, 1964, p. 3, May 23, 1964, p. 3, and March 2, 1965, p. 5.

Cf. Yegorychev N. , Pravda, Oct. 4, 1965, pp. 1–2; Lisitsyn V. , Ekon. Gaz., Oct. 22, 1963, pp. 7–8; Ekon. Gaz., Aug. 1964, p. 46, Dec. 9, 1964, p. 6, and April 28, 1965, pp. 2 ff.; Izvestia, May 23, 1964, p. 3, March 2, 1965, p. 5, and April 25, 1965, p. 3; Pravda, Jan. 25, 1965, p. 2; CDSP, XVII:9 (1965), 30, XVI:21 (1964), 31–32, XVI:25 (1964), 27; Berman A. , “For a Thorough Development of Problems Concerning Management,” Plan. Khoz., No. 3, March 1963, pp. 11–21; and Konson A. , Voprosy Ekonomiki, No. 3, March 1963, pp. 136–140.

Khrushchev , Pravda, Nov. 20, 1962; see also Gvishiani , Ekon. Gaz., 1963, loc. cit.

Kosygin , 1963, op. cit.; see also Kosygin in Pravda, Dec. 12, 1964, p. 2.

Kosygin A. , Pravda, Sept. 28, 1965, p. 3 (trans. in CDSP, XVII:38 [1965], 14).

Gvishiani D. , “Administration is Above All a Science,” Izvestia, May 19, 1963, p. 2 (partial trans. in CDSP, XV:20 [1964], 25 ff); Gvishiani D. , Ekon. Gaz., 1963, loc. cit.

Adfeldt N. , in an article entitled, “Management Personnel and the Science of Administration,” Ekon. Gaz., Sept. 29, 1962, p. 7 (trans. in CDSP, XVI:40 [1962], 3–4).

Tereschenko V. , Izvestia, March 29, 1964, p. 5 (trans. in CDSP, XVI:13 [1964], 17–18).

Tereschenko V. , Organization and Management (Moscow: Economics Publishing House, 1965).

Likhodeyev L. , Lit. Gaz., June 22, 1965, p. 2 (trans. in CDSP, XVII:25 [1965], 11).

Plotnikov K. , Problems of Economics, April 1963, pp. 25–26.

Lisitsyn V. , Ekon. Gaz., 1963, op. cit., pp. 7 ff.

Cf. Bogonsosova G. , Ekon. Gaz., Dec. 9, 1964, p. 6, and June 28, 1965, pp. 2 ff.; Pravda, Oct. 4, 1965, pp. 2–3.

Yegorychev , 1965, op. cit., Pravda, Oct., 4, 1965, pp. 2–3; Sventsitsky, 1965, op. cit.

Adfeldt , 1962, op. cit.

Editorial, Plan. Khoz, Nov. 1962.

Ekon. Gaz., Sept. 21, 1963, pp. 18–20.

Yegorychev , 1965, op. cit.; Pravda, Oct. 4, 1965, pp. 2–3.

Parfenov V. Petrov N. , Pravda, June 23, 1965, p. 2 (trans. in CDSP, XVII:25 [1965], 25–26).

Sventsitsky , 1965, op. cit.

Cf. Burlatsky F. , Pravda, Jan. 16, 1965, p. 4, and June 13, 1965, p. 4 (trans. in CDSP, XVII:2 [1965], 7–8; CDSP, XVII:23 [1965], 14–15; Berman , 1963, op. cit., pp. 13–14.

Parfenov Petrov , 1965, op. cit.

Gvishiani , Ekon. Gaz, 1963, loc. cit.

Berman , 1963, op. cit., p. 14.

Kommunist, June 1963, pp. 21 ff.

Kokushin V. , Ekon. Gaz., Jan. 5, 1963, p. 8.

Parfenov V. Petrov , 1965, op. cit.

Cf. also Tereschenko , 1964, op. cit., pp. 7–8; and Katz G. , 1964, Ekon. Gaz, Aug. 8, 1964, pp. 6 ff.

Katz , op. cit.

Sventsitsky , 1965, op. cit.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Cf. Parfenov Petrov , 1965, op. cit., Sventsitsky , 1965, op. cit., Pravda, June 23, 1965, p. 2, and Oct. 4, 1965, pp. 2–3; Ekon. Gaz, June 27, 1964, pp. 39 ff; Lisitsyn V. , 1963, op. cit., pp. 7–8.

Cf. Pravda, April 9, 1961, p. 2; Kozlov G. , “The Structure of a Course in Political Economy,” Problems of Economics, II:3 (July 1959), 52–53. It is evident from the dates of these sources that this view is dying out, since it is not expressed in any available more recent Soviet sources.

Cf. Ekon. Gaz, Sept. 29, 1962, p. 7. This view is also apparently dying out.