The Social Development of the Working Class of the USSR

The working class is the major force in the revolutionary reorganization of society and the creator of a new, communist system and of new economic, social, and political relationships among human beings. All the basic changes in the contemporary world are indissolubly associated with its revolutionizing activity. In turn, these changes themselves create special features in the growth and development of the working class, further strengthening its revolutionary, creative potential and its greater preparedness for historically creative activity. The timeliness of analysis of these trends at the present stage of the building of communism in the USSR, under conditions created by the revolution in science and technology, is in our view determined by at least three circumstances.