Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forbidding Virgin Lands of Central Asia, where Khrushchev set out in 1954 to create a vast new granary, erosion now threatens to turn millions of acres into a dust bowl; most of the new croplands last year failed even to return their seed grain. His hasty campaign to plow under fallow grasslands has impaired huge areas of once-fertile soil since 1958. Khrushchev's evangelical efforts in 1961 to promote mass sowing of corn did more harm than good, as he himself admitted at the meeting...
Grey Eminence. Agriculture Minister Ivan Volovchenko-the sixth official to hold that thankless post since Khrushchev became boss of the party in 1953-last week outlined the costliest, most ambitious program to boost farm output that has ever been undertaken by a Soviet government. After decades of starveling treatment at the hands of leaders hell-bent on industrialization, Soviet agriculture is finally to get the machinery, fertilizer and technology that have revolutionized U.S. and Western European farming over the past 50 years. But for city dwellers, Volov-chenko's promised bounty came too late. After a winter of scarcities...
...have a far greater impact on the economy in Russia than in most Western nations-have clearly collapsed the Communists' hopes of overtaking the U.S. in the foreseeable future. This is a galling personal defeat for both Khrushchev and his heir apparent, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, a Ukrainian who has been his protege during the long, hard-fought battle to raise Russian living standards. Since 1960, burly, bushy-browed Brezhnev, 57, has been Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and Russia's titular head of state...
...suave, handsome, cagey administrator, Brezhnev is deeply committed to creation of the economic and social climate in which Russia's rising generation hopes finally to achieve Karl Marx's vision of "abundance in our days." As Nikita Khrushchev proclaimed last month: "If a man has one suit, God help him to have two, and then three!" If most Russians had one suit in Stalin's time, it was under Khrushchev that they got Suit No. 2. The third will come along any decade...
...over-response, it came none too soon: Khrushchev had been crying in vain for fertilizer since 1958. Now, armed with a seven-year, $47 billion "chemicalization" program that will pour out more than 80 million tons a year of mineral fertilizer as well as other synthetics, Khrushchev said that, with help, Russia by 1971 would have a chemical industry comparable to any that Western countries have taken decades to build. Said he: "It would be stupid to ignore the achievements of foreign science only because they were made in a capitalist country. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin did not consider...