Soviet economies grew substantially despite censorship of performance comparisons.

Evidence

On its own terms, the economic performance of most of these countries was acrually nor bad. The Soviet Union did double irs living standards in the quarter-century after the war and made further gains in the next decade, up to 1980~ the number of people with more than a secondary education rose from twelve million in 1960 ro over forty million by 1985, and the number of trained scientists exceeded those in Western Europe and Japan together. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 115

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: State socialist economies outperformed comparable non-capitalist and regional peers — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 44

Broader Connections

• State socialist economies outperformed comparable non-capitalist and regional peers #corroborates (0.85) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 44