Social Changes in the Countryside

Analysis of Soviet village life today permits us to identify the point to which it has historically advanced along the road of socialist reorganization and to understand the nature of the significant changes that have occurred in the last few years. Furthermore, through the prism of this analysis it becomes possible to look into the future of the socialist village as well and to determine its most important needs. The progressive changes in farm production and the entire way of life of the peasants is a result of the implementation of Lenin's plan for cooperatives and of the tremendous creative work of the Communist Party in the countryside. Implementation of the broad program of agricultural development has created an economic and social potential that forms a dependable base for accelerated improvement of the village and allows new tasks to be posed and fulfilled. They are formulated in the documents of the Twenty-fifth Congress of the CPSU and in the Central Committee decree, "On Further Development of Specialization and Concentration of Agricultural Production on the Basis of Interfarm Cooperation and Agroindustrial Integration," and in the materials of the October 1976 Plenum.