Significant Economic Institutions in the Era of the Soviet State

The paper describes the economic institutions that gave striking economic results in the development of Soviet statehood: the USSR State Planning Commission, the national heritage, the right to work. The USSR State Planning Commission was the engine of the Soviet economic miracle that had no analogues in world economic and political history. The core of economic interests and needs is the institution of property law. Ownership is the main institution in the economic organization of state-hood. Legally, the Soviet era began constitutional innovations, where private property and the entire land fund was declared a national (peoples’) heritage. This historical and political thread was reproduced in the legislation of the Soviet Union throughout its existence and was interconnected with the results of the work of the USSR State Planning Commission: the objects of planning for Soviet economic development were primarily the national heritage, and the main subjects of the planned market were large-scale state enterprises organized on the basis of the national heritage, creating high income for the development of high rates of industrial economy and raising the living standards of the population. The right to work on a 70-year scale of the history of the USSR, the right to work and its state security had an unconditional socio-economic effect both for citizens and for the country as a whole. The constitutionally guaranteed right to paid work in accordance with its quantity and quality was indeed provided by the socialist organization of the national economy. The most significant role in the growth of workers was played by five-year plans for the development of the national economy — the so-called «five-year plans.» The author urges not to forget the achievements of the economic system of the past, and highlights that both the human factor as a whole and the role of an individual — the Head of State who historically determines the vector for the life of the entire state organism — is of tremendous importance in the economic movement of the country.

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