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...Harvest on the Don, by Mikhail Sholokhov. The hero of this novel is a Communist, but so are most of the villains. Though Khrushchev reportedly twisted Sholokhov's wrist till he wrote a party-line ending, the book sings with an individualism that is remarkably nonMarxist...
...HARVEST ON THE DON (367 pp.) -Mikhail Sholokhov- Knopf...
...Nikita Khrushchev himself to talk stubborn Author Sholokhov into revising the ending (although Sholokhov denies it), in which his Communist hero committed suicide after being jailed on false charges during the Stalin purges. Even with its patchy, rewritten last chapter - the hero is now killed by White counter-revolutionists - Harvest on the Don is an extraordinary book to come officially from Russia. It is frankly critical of much in Soviet life, and sings with a kind of individualism obviously incompatible with Marxist philosophy...
Brezhnev can expect to harvest even more sympathy at his next stop, Sékou Touré's anti-French Communist-lining Guinea...
Reports of an impending world shortage of soybeans in 1961 started the beans jumping. The Department of Agriculture estimated the 1960 U.S. harvest at 559 million bushels, barely enough to meet anticipated demand. From Red China, the world's second largest producer (after the U.S.), came reports of a decimated soybean crop. Actions of Iron Curtain countries that depend on the Chinese harvest seemed to confirm the rumor: Russia de faulted on bean deliveries to West Germany and Denmark; East Germany began buying beans on free world markets. Even Red China itself began seeking liquid oils from India...