就整个国民经济和科学技术领域而言,苏联的科技水平大大落后于西方发达国家。尽管在许多重要工业产品数量上,苏联已超过美国,但经济效率却一直上不去。例如,一九七九年苏联的社会劳动生产率约为美国的百分之四十,工业劳动生产率约为美国的百分之五十五,农业劳动生产率长期来仅为美国的百分之二十至二十五。苏联同美国相比,生产每单位国民 As far as the entire national economy and science and technology are concerned, the level of science and technology of the Soviet Union lags far behind that of western developed countries. Although the Soviet Union has surpassed the United States in the number of important industrial products, its economic efficiency has not gone up. For example, in 1979 the social labor productivity of the Soviet Union was about 40 percent of that of the United States, that of industrial labor was about 55 percent of that of the United States, and that of agricultural labor for only a long time was only 20 percent of that of the United States To twenty-five. Compared with the United States, the Soviet Union produces nationals per unit