ABSTRACT
It should be pointed out at the start that, in order to stay within the framework of this study, we must limit ourselves to analyzing only the actual course of the Soviet Union’s economic development, without dealing with the question of how and to what extent the steep rise in the trendline was made possible by the socialist conditions of production. It will be demonstrated, however, that the new production conditions created after the October Revolution resulted in a new trendline of economic development, a steeply ascending trendline that can in no way be considered a continuation of the early capitalist development of Russia.
