Corn Crusade

Corn Crusade: Khrushchev''s Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union is the first history of Nikita Khrushchev''s venture to cover the Soviet Union in corn, a crop common globally but hitherto rare in his country. Lasting from 1953 until 1964, this crusade was an emblematic component of his efforts to resolve agrarian crises inherited from Joseph Stalin. Using policies and propaganda to ...