JPRS ID: 9773 USSR REPORT CYBERNETICS, COMPUTERS AND AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGY

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CONSUMER ~OODS AND DOMESTIC TRADE
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- USSR REPORT
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CONSUMER GOODS AND DOMESfIC TRADE
(FOUO 4/81)
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CONSUMER GOOAS PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION
~ Consumer Coopera~ive Network's Ftiinctions Eiucidated
(V. Nesterenko, I. Suslov; VOPROSY EKONCk'BKI, May 81) 1
Regional Differences in Retail Trade 11
, (I. V. Nikol~skiy; GEOGRAFIYA I PRZRODNYYE RESURSY, Apr 81)..
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CONSUMER GOODS PRO~UCTION AND DISTP.IBUTION
CONSUMER COOPERATIVE NETWORK'S FUNCTIdNS ELUC~DATED
Moscow VOPROSY EKONOMIKI in Rus~ian No 5, May 81 pp 86-95
(Article by V. Nesterenko and I. Suslo�v: "The Consumer Cooperatives in the
Economic Syseem of Developed Socialism"] ~
- [Text] In the extensive system of ineasures worked out oy the 26th Party Congress
for the further enhancement af the laboring public's well-being, particular sig-
nificance is attached to the fuller satisfaction of public demand for various
- goods and services, the expansion ~and renewal of the product assortment, the
improvement of product quality and the active development of the population`s
aeshtetic tastes and reasonable demands. A sizable part in the implementation of
these plans will be played by the further development of consumer cooueratives and
~ the heightened effectiveness of their operation.
The consumer cooperati~e is one of the major economic orgar~izations in our country.
It serves primarily the rural population and inhabitants of small cities and
rayon centers. Consumer cooperative enterprises employed over 3 million people.
- During all stages of the Soviet State's development, the consumer cooperative
has been actively involved in che execution of the communist party's socioeconomic
policy. The November 1979 decree of the CPSU Central Committee and USSR Council
of Ministers "On the Further Develo~ment and Improvement of the Activity of Con-
sumer Cooperatives" will be quite important in the development of this organization.
- As an economic organization, the consumer cooperative is an element and integral
part of the mature socialist economy. This stems from socialist ownership of the
means of production, which, as the Constitution of the USSR points out, constitutes
the basis of the economic system of the developed socialist society, taking the
form of state (or public) and kolkhoz-cooperative ownership. This statement is of
' fundamental signi_ficance in t~-.e description of the entire structure of economic
relations in the developed socialist society and in the determination of the place
and role of consumer cooperatives within these relations.
Public ownershtp is the highest form of socialist ownership, but it does not ex-
tend to all me