Word: khrushchevism
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...cause of building Communism." To get Red farms in the black, he demanded sweeping, immediate reforms that include doubling the output of farm machines, a tenfold boost in fertilizer production by 1980, and increased "Leninist incentives" (i.e., pay for peasants). Burying his seven-year-old decentralization program, Khrushchev put responsibility for agriculture on a vast central administration. With all the fervor of his old crusade for corn, he even plugged a brand-new party-line panacea: abandonment of Stalin's system of sowing grain fields to grass every few years.* Instead of allowing almost half the valuable land...
Some Western diplomats deduced hopefully that Khrushchev would now press seriously for disarmament, argued that the vast investment needed for his farm program could come only from the Soviet defense budget. However, most Soviet experts agree that Khrushchev cannot afford to gamble with national security or alienate the army, which reportedly is already suspicious of his faith in peaceful coexistence. Khrushchev is inextricably committed to butter as well as guns, sirloin as well as sputniks. He has long since staked his political survival on raising Russian living standards, and last week even declared approvingly that Marxism-Leninism, like U.S. capitalism...
Whatever his new targets, in Khrushchev's own phrase, "statistics don't fry pancakes." Few experts expect Russia to have any farm surplus problem for years to come. It is perhaps Communism's greatest failure that nowhere has it satisfied man's most fundamental demand in life, to be properly fed. Throughout the Communist empire, from Castro's Cuba to Mao's China, breadline societies are an inevitable result of Marxism's ingrained distrust of the peasantry and its insistence on headlong industrialization...
...food shortage would be catastrophic. Though their holdings amount to less than 4% of all arable land, individual peasants own 50% of all cows, 25% of the hogs, produce 65% of the potatoes and cabbage that are Russia's basic foods. European economists speculated last week that Nikita Khrushchev could still solve the farm problem in a single stroke. The solution: a threefold increase in the peasants' private plots...
More than five years since Russian tanks crushed the Hungarian revolution and Janos Kadar took over as the country's ruler, the secret police still make dead-of-night arrests, and land mines along the Austrian frontier still deter potential escapes. But, imitating Nikita Khrushchev's methods, Communist Kadar has begun to loosen the noose around the Hungarian people. While forced collectivization of agriculture continues, luxury and hard goods are more abundant, even though prices are high. Last week Kadar announced a policy of peaceful coexistence between Hungary's Communist rulers and non-Communist majority...