Word: agrogoroda
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Lying on each delegate's desk was a set of "theses" in which Khrushchev proposed a program to resettle peasants in large apartment-house towns called agrogoroda, or agro-cities, from which they could commute to work on the farm. When Khrushchev, as Stalin's farm troubleshooter, first brought up this idea back in 1949, his rival, Georgy Malenkov, attacked it as wildly irresponsible, and Stalin called it off before it was even tried. Trying to please Khrushchev, Sokolov now said that his region planned to build agro-cities on big state farms to replace villages. Khrushchev...
...blunt confession was its authorship. For the last four years Nikita Khrushchev has been the chief architect of the program whose results he now deplored. He masterminded the agrogorod scheme, designed to further collectivize the already collectivized farmers and to drive them off the land and into agricultural cities (agrogoroda). But by their quiet resistance, Russia's millions of muzhiks made the scheme a failure, drove Khrushchev into retreat. Result: the new policy grudgingly gives the peasants the right to own more livestock of their own, promises them big price increases for their requisitioned products: over 550% more...
...Communists to create party cells in all of Russia's scores of thousands of small villages. Many "collectivized" villages are in fact tight family communities, loyal to their family interests. Hence Stalin's effort in 1949 to amalgamate the villages into large, well-policed agricultural towns, called agrogoroda. The attempt was quietly abandoned. Russia needs more & more bread for her expanding industrial cities. To the end. Stalin dared not risk another setback like that...
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