ECONOMIC - STATISTICAL THEORY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600220932-3
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2011
• Sequence Number: 932
• Publication Date: May 16, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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109!iz Or SOYm 3TATISPICAL TUOHY
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_ststlotigs Is universal. encompasses the entire national
""Or ass all fields of culturo. It is organitsd according to a single
."IS single prog:+Nm, and is subordinated In all of its parts to the
ni' national ecmaa1o p]asasiag.
The entire progress of the national econcoW and the whole process
Or p iL socialist rev-uaucsicn are reflected !n Soviet statistics.
8~sa.t8ssrsb' p stt economic indexes are given Mn', O xr et statistics
a:,.lovs omi to see at a g]aaoe the essential lin` of the whole proobss of
e9amaing sooieliei reproduction in all territories of., air groat country.
The application ai',statistioal methods in the t88R is dot xestriated
to' the tIM! of seanaoioa, but is ezten ted to. the most varied brdsehes of
so 'ia Girt )r ctfoal,work. Socialist some of production treats all
404hiame far such a devilopmec .
Sifhet that statistical methods are finding an e7er broader direct
yg}~~aattion:to produatioa is oasplately in keeping with the above. Thq
ors"siei`ta'ntrol'the quality of row laattrials and finished products,
?_"taats course of pmoinatioa is oheKt 1Sse saaatS.3y,nf paoduction,
!t34*. a kesp2ag.with the above beasose in the dtiva for higher
IQEwlotion scientific methods are inherent In sooialira- To what
1 ltlial assthods are an effaotave weapon in the drive for quality
*odootias iw apparent in the following example, in which the OTt (Technical
1*p4ro1.8eatlas) of the,lbecow Zlsot is Ibahinery Plant used a statistical
11"CA of control for quality of finished products.
}that is the essence of this method? An inspector periodically takes
a see le from a machine, i.e., some quantity of parts (five to ten units)
which have undergone a defined operation, and ammuree the dimensions
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COMMAL 50X1-HUM
The theory of the ritkWftg away of soow?caic statistics under sooialism
is psq~aesulized In st tiatt'e textbooks, by Priifesecr A. U. Boyarskiy and
otler[safhaa~s. These *athoes artifioially sever the ccnoeption of aocounting
frog that. of statistics, maintaining that in contrast to a capitalist eccnasW
with its elementary character, a socialist eeonoep as a planned ecommy is a
matter not for statietios, but for accounting. They maintain this despite the
odiasltively clear toitmis given by Lenin and Stalin on the signifioanoe
of etatistios for cioialist oomatruction.
1svertbs]au, the most widely disseminated textbook on statistical
theory for higher eduoatiosal institutions at present remains A Comm of
ffiffi;ftiglufti Jy Professor B.S. Tastr nkiy, Professor A. 7a. Boyar-
, .8. Po , P.P. 8hysherin and O.S. hv$ova, publi4hed in 1938.
:textbook vas subjected to devastating criticism in an article entitled
latest Nreoking in 8tatistiual 8oienoa"''(Bol'ah ik, So 23-24, 1938),
aua also in the Planohnra =hosmnsstvo, No 1, 1939. The textbook is no wai
satisfied the neeis of statistical instruction in higher educational insti-
tatioap, a1t}iough it cams after the theory of the withering away of statistics
varier aooialisr ens exposed. The authors of this textbook criticized the
tkoc:.7 an anti st (modestly passing over the fact that they themmelves
Watch it!). In addition, the basis for applying statistics to the plaaaing
prooasa of the socialist national sconony is presented in this textbook in an
anti-lhrxist mmnnsr.
"At Q e seas time, it follows", they write, that the law of large
munbers is by n3 awns related only to elementary phenomena. One my Intro-
'dim many examples of conscious mamrement by mss prooesees, the elements of
which are accidental in the some indicated above. It is sufficient to point
to such a simple, everyday operation as the boiling of eater.; which can be
calculated beforehand in minutep, but which represents a process of just such
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M.T. ieea.
In April 1929 at the Plenum of the TeX YIP (b), Comrade Stalin said in
a speech an rightist deviations that "the method of averages, if not correote4
data, is not a soisatifio method." EFplairiing this, Camasds Stalin
aA..{Ott v an to survey the prowess of acreage under cultivation according
Uto i.e., i' we are to approach this matter aoientifioallj, it appears
hest