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When Nikolai Bulganin, the Soviet Union's new prime minister, addressed the Supreme Soviet this week, his words echoed those of Lenin, Stalin, and to a lesser extent, Malenkov. "Heavy industry," Bulganin said, "has always been and remains the foundation for the further upsurge of our national economy... Our highly developed heavy industry is the great, historical achievement of the Communist Party and of the Soviet people." Although the Soviet Union would like the world to think its industrial economy is without weakness, economic specialists at the Russian Research Center know differently. These men, who daily inspect the latest Soviet...
...differences in the economic views of Malenkov and Khruschev were so slight," Eckstein said, "that we have no real reason to suspect that it was an economic difference which caused the shift in power, and not a personality or foreign policy difference. However, from the resignation it is clear that the Soviet leaders have realized that their agricultural problem is a very serious one." Some Russian experts believe that Malenkov's resignation may have been a cover-up by the government for tits ineffective agricultural policy, with Malenkov serving as a scapegoat...
Stalin faced this problem, and so has Malenkov, and so will Khrushchev. Malenkov, in the past two years, through his farm administrator, Khrushchev, brought about certain improvements on the kolkhozes, and the big question now is whether Khrushchev will continue them...
Russia is an industrial nation, having to compete with the great heavy industry potential of the West. Because of this, capital in the past was almost completely invested in heavy industry and not in light industry and agriculture. Malenkov raised slightly the percentage of money invested for consumer goods produced and imported; cut the farmers' taxes slightly; gave the farmers concessions on livestock; lowered the prices on consumer goods; and raised wages...
These slight changes had at least three motivations. They provided the peasant with added incentives to work harder on the kolkhoz; they provided Russia with a propaganda vehicle with which to shower the world; and they served to improve the morale of the peasantry. But, unfortunately for Malenkov, the actual production of consumer goods was far short of what the leaders had predicted, producing an economy in Russia which is almost inflationary...