Corn Crusade

Corn Crusade: Khrushchev's Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union is the first 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.

List of contents

• Prologue


• Acknowledgments


• Introduction


• 1. Scarcely Making Ends Meet


• 2. Industrial Agriculture, the Logic of Corn


• 3. Corn Politics


• 4. Better Living through Corn


• 5. Growing Corn, Raising Citizens


• 6. From Kolkhoznik to Wage Earner


• 7. American Technology, Soviet Practice


• 8. Battles over Corn


• Conclusion


• Glossary


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Aaron Hale-Dorrell is a visiting lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received his PhD in 2014. A native of the Corn Belt, he developed an interest in Russian culture and history during a visit to St. Petersburg as an undergraduate at Indiana University at Bloomington.

Summary

Corn Crusade: Khrushchev's Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union is the first 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.

Additional text

Corn Crusade is based on excellent archival research and provides an inside view of the USSR in Khrushchev's time.

Product details

• Authors: Aaron T. Hale-Dorrell, Aaron T. (visiting lecturer Hale-Dorrell, Aaron Todd Hale-Dorrell
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9780190644673
• ISBN: 978-0-19-064467-3
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 245 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Social sciences, law, business > Business; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Archaeology, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Agriculture and farming, AGRICULTURE & FARMING, History and Archaeology, The Cold War, Marxism & Communism, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Cold wars and proxy conflicts, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General