The Role of Sociology in Accelerating the Development of Soviet Society

The course announced by the Twenty-seventh Congress of the CPSU toward accelerating the economic and social development of our country is becoming more and more a reality. The Party is engaged in a titanic effort to eliminate phenomena alien to socialism, and to overcome various obstructions on the road to progress: the system of managing the economy is being restructured; the rights of enterprises are being augmented; the barriers to individual and family labor are being eased; the education system is being renovated; an active battle is being waged against unearned income, drunkenness, and crime; an open struggle has been declared against bureaucratism; and some very important changes have affected literature, films, theatre, and other forms of art. But what is most important is that the universal habituation to those half-truths that in a certain sense are worse than lies is resolutely being overcome. We are once again learning to look truth in the eyes, and this fact alone may have the most value.