ABSTRACT
The socioeconomic development of Cuba, Mongolia, and Vietnam shows once again the lasting relevance of the Marxist-Leninist theory of the social laws of the transition to socialism and the building of the new society. At the same time, it demonstrates its creative character and the ensuing possibilities of “every country that has moved along the socialist path, each in its own way to solve the problems of a socialist state system, the development of socialist industry, establishing cooperatives in the countryside, and the ideological reeducation of the popular masses. ’ ’ 1 As the concrete national conditions show, the experience of these three countries in building up the foundations of socialism may serve as an example and a reference point in tackling the complex economic and social problems in other countries that have chosen the socialist path of development. This applies first and foremost to the developing countries with a socialist orientation, whose problems cannot be regarded and 192resolved separately and in isolation from the general processes and phenomena that take place within the world socialist system or from the possibilities and prospects of development of their own economies on the basis of an international socialist division of labor, and at a certain stage, under the conditions of socialist integration as well. 2 For this reason it is of unquestionable practical and theoretical interest to examine the problems of the construction of the national economies of Mongolia, Cuba, and Vietnam, which not only participate in the international socialist division of labor, but as regular members of the CMEA have been actively drawn into the process of socialist integration.
