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Corn Crusade

Khrushchev's Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union

By: Aaron T. Hale-Dorrell

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Corn Crusade

Khrushchev's Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union

By: Aaron T. Hale-Dorrell

Corn Crusade: Khrushchev's Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union is the first history of Nikita Khrushchev's venture to cover the Soviet Union in corn, a crop common globally but hitherto rare in his country. Lasting from 1953 until 1964, this crusade was an emblematic component of his efforts to resolve agrarian crises inherited from Joseph Stalin. Using policies and propaganda to pressure farms to expand corn plantings tenfold, Khrushchev expected the resulting bounty to feed not people, but the livestock necessary to produce the meat and dairy products required to make good on his frequent pledges that the Soviet Union was soon to "catch up to and surpass America." This promised to enrich citizens' hitherto monotonous diets and score a victory in the Cold War, which was partly recast as a "peaceful competition" between communism and capitalism. Khrushchev's former comrades derided corn as one of his "harebrained schemes" when ousting him in October 1964. Echoing them, scholars have ridiculed it as an "irrational obsession," blaming the failure on climatic conditions. Corn Crusade brings a more complex and revealing history to light. Borrowing technologies from the United States, Khrushchev expected farms in the Soviet Union to increase productivity because he believed that innovations developed under capitalism promised greater returns under socialism. These technologies generated results in many economic, social, and climatic contexts after World War II but fell short in the Soviet Union. Attempting to make agriculture more productive and ameliorate exploitative labor practices established in the 1930s, Khrushchev achieved only partial reform of rural economic life. Enjoying authority over formal policy, Khrushchev stood atop an undisciplined hierarchy of bureaucracies, local authorities, and farmworkers. Weighing competing incentives, they flouted his authority by doing enough to avoid penalties, but too little to produce even modest harvests of corn, let alone the bumper crops the leader envisioned.

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0190644680

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Corn Crusade

Khrushchev's Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union

By: Aaron Todd Hale-Dorrell

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Khrushchev's Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union

By: Aaron Todd Hale-Dorrell

Scarcely making ends meet -- Industrial agriculture, the logic of corn -- Corn politics -- Better living through corn -- Growing corn, raising citizens -- From Kolkhoznik to wage earner -- American technology, Soviet practice -- Battles over corn

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0190644672

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The Private Journal of Aaron Burr, During His Residence of Four Years in Europe, with Selections from His Correspondence

Vol. II

By: Aaron Burr,Matthew Livingston Davis

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The Private Journal of Aaron Burr, During His Residence of Four Years in Europe, with Selections from His Correspondence

Vol. II

By: Aaron Burr,Matthew Livingston Davis

Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.

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3368944533

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PRIVATE JOURNAL OF AARON BURR

By: Aaron 1756-1836 Burr,Matthew L. (Matthew Livingston) Davis

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PRIVATE JOURNAL OF AARON BURR

By: Aaron 1756-1836 Burr,Matthew L. (Matthew Livingston) Davis

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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1363594230

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The Private Journal of Aaron Burr, During His Residence of Four Years in Europe: With Selections from His Correspondence;

By: Aaron Burr,Matthew Livingston Davis

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By: Aaron Burr,Matthew Livingston Davis

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Corn Crusade

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The Private Journal of Aaron Burr, During His Residence of Four Years in Europe, with Selections from His Correspondence

The Private Journal of Aaron Burr, During His Residence of Four Years in Europe, with Selections from His Correspondence

PRIVATE JOURNAL OF AARON BURR

PRIVATE JOURNAL OF AARON BURR

The Private Journal of Aaron Burr, During His Residence of Four Years in Europe: With Selections from His Correspondence;

The Private Journal of Aaron Burr, During His Residence of Four Years in Europe: With Selections from His Correspondence;

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