Aaron T Hale-Dorrell

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Corn Crusade

Khrushchev's Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union

Beschreibung

Corn Crusade: Khrushchev's Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union is the first history of Nikita Khrushchev's venture to improve living standards by making the his country a major producer of corn. Lasting from 1953 until 1964, this crusade was an emblematic component of his efforts to resolve agrarian crises inherited from Iosif Stalin.

Autor

Aaron Hale-Dorrell is a visiting lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received his PhD in 2014. A native of the Corn Belt, he developed an interest in Russian culture and history during a visit to St. Petersburg as an undergraduate at Indiana University at Bloomington.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780190644673
• ISBN-10: 0190644672
• Artikelnr.: 53209812