Tartu Academy of Theology

Abstract The Twenty-fifth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union posed the task of raising the management of the economy and the economic mechanism to the level of the new requirements. The attainment of the fundamental, long-range objectives of the Party's economic policy requires the dynamic and proportional development of social production, its greater effectiveness, the acceleration of scientific-technical progress, and general improvement in the quality of work at all levels of the national economy. The criterion of the effectiveness of social production and the successful management of every production cell acquire exceptionally great importance under these conditions.