SOVIET SCIENTIFIC POLICY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01446R000100030001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 16, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 21, 1961
• Content Type: MEMO

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USSR and Com
Free 'World and the
result of the Moscow
appears to have been settle
Policy
pectacular cotrGversy between th
engrossed the attention of both the
at Communiet movement. As a
ce (Novernber.December 1960) it
least for the time being on a
basis of general unity and cooperation between the two senior prt-
ners of the movement. ithough international crises. provoked or
-exploited by the Communists will continue, it seem* likely that in-
ternal developments in both countries wilt come to the fore. E.-co-
ornie problems, especially in agriculture, have erstuno4 priority
pastime.. it may be anticipated that scientifie and technotogical
arch and development will also be given much. more prominent
ment.
The Soviet U
tu e "tr*nsition
es. *fully onstrue
"material base
proclaims
utdam" fr
Essential to this process is
ch in turn is rooted in scion
I progress aro ghout the economy.
Soviet policy therefore accords the k4gbest priori
dev opulent. It is *direct concern of the members of the
of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet
some half of whom have had scientific or technological training
erience. In promoting a "mighty upsurge" oi *C1032Ce a number a
cant steps have been taken:
? a. The listing and speciftcation of 30 LOrity acids
the range through ail the disciplines which we would *eknowle
b4ng naturat science but also include such fields as pedagogy, ?
nor planning, and even what we would call the humanities.
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b. Re
framework closely c
overnment and
C. Po fat itin
soci and mat tat incesti
eapic1aiLy youth, to Join
racreement.
uiLding on the pr
he heavy and machine t
puter applications, the
ktaitte will protaby continue
onalisation
single all embracing national,
by the party and integreted with
Sh propag*uis, and
applied to the whole populati
dynamic thrust of the scienti
compoundiag capital investment
ndustries and in initornation and
expansion of the Soviet industrial
erect with the dynamics of scien-
tific research to achieve striking new SUXCIIISSell. The impetus of
this aggregate at this stage appears to exceed anything in the Free
World. including the US. ?hie is not to say that a free society is
doomed to lose in such *competitive race with one which is regi-
opted on a totalitarian basis. Nevertheless, unless new stimuli
c successfully applied within our system, it seems probable that
it witi fall behind, relatively .p.aktng lfl many if not most /acids
of scientific endeavor within the next decade or two.
Less noticed areas f tre endous potential tLe La
ar behaviorai sciences ranging from cytology and genetics
psychology to pedagogy and social conditioning. In this field am
hitious programs for applying the discipline of cybernetics have
been launched; the progress already achieved is a few years, the
high caliber of resenrch personnel end the powerful Ruppert of the
party suggest the prospect of * sputnik-like achievement which in
tern could have profound impact on the creation of a "socialist
humanism" as the key to the "transition to Communism.
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