1
Readers will recall that the section in question was originally an independent institute under the direction of Eugen Varga, and was merged with the “Institut Ekonomiki” about seven years ago, when Varga's critics forced him to recant.
2
It seems that this was the latest available report on personnel at the time when Dyatchenko's paper was published.
3
Roughly speaking, “decent” corresponds to lecturer, and “candidate” to the holder of a master's degree in English speaking countries.
4
The first edition of the official text-book was published in 1954. Shortly after Dyatchenko delivered his address, a second, amended edition appeared, from which some of the crudities of the original version have been deleted.
1
Dyatchenko makes free use of the adjective “talmudistic”. This is a severely derogative word, used only to describe scholastic hair-splitting of the most sterile kind.
2
Dyatchenko is hardly right in attributing this doctrine to both Marx and Lenin. It was one of Lenin's dicta, for which Marx cannot be made responsible, and there is reason to believe that Lenin meant it as a precept rather than as a “law” of expanded reproduction. As pointed out by Mr. M. Dobb, (“Comparative Rates of Growth in Industry”, Soviet Studies, July 1955), only an increase in the growth rate itself demands such a policy. (Cf. also M. Dobb: “Rates of Growth under the Five-Year Plan”, Soviet Studies, April 1953, and the discussion between Mr. Dobb and the present writer in the October 1955, January 1956 and April 1956 issues of the same journal.)
1
Cf. “The Agricultural Planning Order”, Soviet Studies, July 1955 also A. Nove: “Some Problems in Soviet Agricultural Statistics”, Soviet Studies, January 1956.
1
It is characteristic of the present tendency in the Soviet Union that neither in this connexion nor in any other part of his address has Dyatchenko mentioned Stalin. During the latter's lifetime and even for some years after his death, a Russian paper on economics which did not pay tribute to Stalin as the greatest advancer of Marxism-Leninism would have been inconceivable.
2
The relevant passage of Dyatchenko's address (which also points out a large number of detail problems) appears to approve of the direction of Strumilin's attempt, though the implication is that he considers the latter's achievement as inadequate. Cf. A. Gabor: “Neo-Marxian Social Accounting”, Yorkshire Bulletin of Economic and Social Research, September 1955.
3
Cf. the experience of the British economists who visited Russia four years ago, as reported by Mr. P. Wiles, “Soviet Economics”, Soviet Studies, October, 1962.
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