Comment on the Report by the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee on the Study of *Economic Problems of Socialism in the U.S.S.R.* and Other Documents by Senior Cadres in Beijing

(December 10, 1952)

After reading, Premier Zhou, forward to Comrade Qiaomu: [1]

This document [2] has been reviewed and is very good. Regarding the matter previously discussed about the Central Committee issuing a supplementary public study directive, I think it is unnecessary to issue such a directive. It will suffice to publish a summary news report on the study in the newspapers.

Mao Zedong
December 10

Printed from the manuscript.

**Notes**

[1] Qiaomu refers to Hu Qiaomu, then serving as Mao Zedong’s secretary and Deputy Director of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee.
[2] Refers to the report submitted to the Central Committee by the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee on December 9, 1952, concerning the study by senior cadres from over twenty units in Beijing of Stalin’s *Economic Problems of Socialism in the U.S.S.R.* and documents from the 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.