Word: volovchenko
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...Moscow eyebrows arched last week when the name Ivan Volovchenko appeared conspicuously in a major Pravda article discussing Soviet farm production This was sudden prominence indeed far the man who had been merely head of a big state farm southeast of Moscow for the past dozen years. Through the Moscow grapevines swept rumors that a big shake-up was coming in the Soviet Ministry of Agriculture...
...rumors were right. Forty-eight hours after Volovchenko, 46, made his Pravda debut, he was named Russia's farm boss, succeeding the hapless Konstantin Pysin, who had held the job for less than a year. During his brief tenure, Pysin tried his best to coax more production from the collectivized peasantry. He even squeezed in a month-long tour of U.S. farm lands last September, hoping to pick up a few pointers. Alas, nothing seemed to help. The Soviet grain harvest last year was 16 million tons less than the quota under the seven-year plan, and Nikita Khrushchev...
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