THE PLANNING COMMISSIONS OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES OF LOCAL SOVIETS IN THE USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700120351-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 14, 2011
• Sequence Number: 351
• Publication Date: July 30, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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The national economic plan determines and directs the economic life of
the USSR. In a socialist state the plan is the law for the development of the
national economy. In addition to the over-all state economic plan, plans are
also formulated on a regional basis and for separate branches of the national
economy.
Among the organs of state power which deal in economic planning are the
local soviets of workers' deputies and their executive committees and divi-
sions. The plans for economic and cultural construction made by the local
soviets are an organic part of the over-all state economic plan. The funda-
mental political and economic tasks set by the party and the Soviet government
for the planning period determine the development of the national economy of
the USSR as a whole and of its separate krays, oblasts, okrugs, aid rayons.
The organs which carry out specific and general planning along the lines of
the Gosplan are the planning commissions in the kray, oblast, rayon, and city
soviets of workers' deputies and in their executive committees. The planning
commissions are in charge of general supervision of quarterly, yearly, and
long-range plans prepared by divisions of the executive committee and by enter-
prises and establishments under the jurisdiction of the rayon or oblast. These
commissions differ from the divisions and administrations of the executive
committees in that they function on the principles of "collegiality" (kollegial'-
nost').
The work of the planning commissions of executive committees of local
soviets gets little publicity in the press. Occasional newspaper articles
tell chiefly of the deficiencies noted in the work of these commissions with
the aim of correcting them. However, the legal status of the planning com-
mission has not been sufficiently explained to the public. TheGospolitizdat
(State Publishing House of Political Literature) recently published
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