An Evaluation of Recent Research in the Field of Historical Materialism

From the Editors of Voprosy filosofii: A little more than half a year remains before the Twenty-seventh Congress of the CPSU. As was stressed at the April (1985) Plenum of the CPSU Central Committee, the coming congress will be a landmark stage in the development of the country. Its significance is determined by the character of the period being experienced and the scale of the tasks before us, which give special significance to the pre-Congress work of the Party. All this demands a profound scientific study of the realities of the present day and a thorough comprehension of the prospects of socialist and communist construction, in particular of the profound qualitative shifts in the development and functioning of the economy and the social relations of developed socialism.