On the setting of production and technical propaganda
On the setting of production and technical propaganda.
(Approved by the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) on May 25, 1931).
1 . To state that the organization of production and technical propaganda and, in particular, the publication of literature on technical knowledge is extremely lagging behind the general scope of the country's industrialization and technical reconstruction of industry.
2 . To propose to the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the National Economy of the USSR, together with the cultural center of the Central Committee and the OGIZ, to develop a plan for the deployment of production and technical propaganda, in particular, a plan for the publication of technical literature - both capital, technical textbooks and reference books, and popular mass.
3 . For the successful deployment of production and technical propaganda - both oral (lectures) and literary - to organize a department of production and technical propaganda at the Supreme Council of National Economy, headed by a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of National Economy of the USSR.
4 . In the publishing plan of technical literature, ensure the publication of textbooks and works of Soviet professors and engineers, as well as translated foreign technical literature for technical colleges, engineering and technical and leading personnel in industry, and in the publishing plan, special attention should be given to the publication of the latest technical literature, domestic and foreign.
5 . Along with general technical literature, widely publish literature on individual industries, primarily on those industries that are new in the Soviet Union and with which the engineering and technical and managerial industrial personnel and skilled workers are not sufficiently familiar.
6 . Immediately start publishing a serious scientific and technical journal, which should cover all the new achievements of technology both in foreign countries and in the USSR, and where it should be delivered partly by reprinting, partly by abstracting - coverage of the latest achievements of technology from foreign technical literary sources.
7 . In addition to the journal and special works of outstanding foreign scientists and technicians, published mainly for the top commanding staff of industry, it is necessary to ensure the publication of more popular scientific and technical literature for the middle command staff of industry, first of all, the publication of a technical encyclopedia and special reference books on individual industries.
8 . At the same time, in order to raise the technical level and qualifications of workers and employees, the publication in millions of copies of cheap mass-popular technical literature and publicly available textbooks on technology, both in the general foundations of technology and in individual branches of industry, should be ensured.
In particular:
a) recognize the need to publish cheap popular literature describing from the technical point of view the new most important constructions (Magnetostroy, Bereznyaki, Kuzbass, potash production, Chelyabtraktorostroy, Nizhegorodsky Avtostroy, Selmash, etc.);
b) to start publishing a special series of cheap popular brochures, leaflets, posters, postcards dedicated to the description of the new technology currently used in our factories and new industrial buildings (machine tools, excavators, cranes, hammer drills, autogenous welding, pneumatic riveting, etc. etc.);
c) to expand the publication of special literature describing the most outstanding examples of mass inventions and the inventors themselves;
d) publish a special collection with characteristics of outstanding workers of technology and science in the USSR and abroad.
9 . In view of the fact that there are fewer new young authors involved in the publication of technical literature than in any other field, to oblige OGIZ to carry out the publishing plan to attract new outstanding young technical forces of the Soviet Union, as well as outstanding foreign specialists.
10 . When developing a plan for publishing technical literature, proceed from the need to release paper for technical literature from the entire amount received by OGIZ, approximately, from 20 to 25%, instead of 10.9% of the currently released.
11 . To raise the distribution of technical literature both by subscription and by sale in the Knigotsentr stores to the proper height, in particular to instruct the Cultprop Central Committee to the People's Commissariat of Education to develop a plan for the supply of technical literature to the entire library network, primarily factory libraries.
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