USSR: a society without crises - 1977

"Techniques change, people change too"
With this materialistic perspective, the documentary "USSR: a society without crises" involves the economy and Soviet society of the 1970s in its narrative. Through an interview with Professor Leonid Abalkin and the Anikeev family, the documentary's proposal is to present the quick improvement of life felt by the Soviet population, obtained with the increase of the population's income and expansion of socially rights. With still dynamic growth, the Soviet economy was consolidating mass production in several economic sectors. The examples used in the documentary, the ZIL, KamAZ factories and the construction of the Baikal-Amur railway (BAM) seek to demonstrate the development of this centralized economy. Attention was also paid to the new technologies of integrated circuits, which enabled economic calculations, previously impossible to be processed manually. The automation of industries was also addressed by the documentary. The marxist idea presented was that the automation of industries in Soviet Union don't promoted layoffs, as a result of the contradictions between work and capital, which occur in capitalist countries. The documentary was also released at an opportune time, the year of the promulgation of the last Soviet constitution and its publication was, in a way, a means of commemorating the achievements of the so-called "developed socialism".

Видео USSR: a society without crises - 1977 канала Автоэкспорт СССР