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

ISBN-13: 9780190644673 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 344 str.

Aaron Todd Hale-Dorrell

Opis

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.

Recenzje

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

O autorze

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.