Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Khrushchev last week cited vast differences between the man-hours required for comparable farm output in the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. that were really much more eye-opening than his flashy predictions of increased farm production. These comparisons (see below) gave a truer picture of how far Khrushchev really is from equaling the U.S., and how harshly he must clamp down if he would close the gap. He found it necessary to increase his menaces against the "antiparty" group, and to blame them for the defects in Soviet planning. Molotov, Kaganovich and Malenkov, by opposing his virgin lands development, gave...
Incentives of Fear. In China too, the boss blamed those below. Mao was also suffering from a desperate agricultural imbalance. He set out audaciously to do two tasks at once-to create an industrial structure from scratch while at the same time boosting farm output to feed an increasing population. To achieve a radical increase in farm products, he did not propose to introduce Khrushchev's costly peasant incentives. Instead, Mao has substituted Communism's cheapest incentives-fear and control...
...that Comrade Khrushchev said in his report about the antiparty group and about me is true." They had "criminally" opposed, delayed and impeded a farm program of "genius." Bulganin gave devastating little thumbnail sketches of his colleagues disgraced and banished-Molotov, "isolated from life and from the Soviet people, knowing nothing of industry and agriculture"; Kaganovich. "a phrasemaker who interfered with party work with his long, involved speeches"; Malenkov, "an intriguer capable of all vileness...
...this year his virgin-lands program paid off in a big harvest, and Nikita, ending an official Soviet statistic silence as to farm production that has lasted throughout his five-year reign, bragged that in 1958 the Soviet Union had harvested a 137 million-ton grain crop. He also asserted that this year Soviet milk production would top that of the U.S. for 1957, that Soviet butter production now surpassed the U.S.'s, that Soviet wool output was now 2.3 times that of the U.S. and second only to Australia's in the world. Only in meat production...
...word message is that Soviet collective farmers must improve their efficiency if the new plan is to be fulfilled. Khrushchev's touring experts had been shocked during their 1955 visit to Iowa to see what huge crop yields a relatively small number of U.S. farmers could obtain. In farm productivity, said Khrushchev, "our country is still seriously lagging behind the U.S." He cited some revealing figures of the number of man-hours required in the two countries to grow 220 lbs. of produce...