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Corn crusade : Khrushchev's farming revolution in the post-Stalin Soviet Union / Aaron Hale-Dorrell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hale-Dorrell, Aaron Todd, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Corn industry--Soviet Union.
- Corn industry.
- Corn--Government policy--Soviet Union.
- Corn.
- Agriculture and state--Soviet Union.
- Agriculture and state.
- Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, 1894-1971.
- Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (345 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- 'Corn Crusade' is a history of Nikita Khrushchev's venture to improve living standards by making the his country a major producer of corn. Lasting from 1953 until 1964, this crusade was an emblematic component of his efforts to resolve agrarian crises inherited from Iosif Stalin.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Previously issued in print: 2018.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-064469-9
- 0-19-064470-2
- 0-19-064468-0
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