Word: gigantomania
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Transform the farms," was Khrushchev's next decree. His method reflected his own and the party's gigantomania. In 1950 alone, Khrushchev amalgamated 40,000 small kolkhozes into vast agrogorods, literally "farm cities." Workers in the agrogorods were promised "running water, large movie houses . . . apartment houses so planned as to have bathrooms and porches...
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