Word: agrogoroda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
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