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Why the Soviet Union was obsessed with corn

This video explores the relationship between Nikita Khrushchev and corn cultivation during his leadership in the Soviet Union ...
M. Tchernov, Commissar of Agriculture, announced today establishment of a special department to stimulate agricultural settlement in the Jewish autonomous region of Biro-Bidjan, in Soviet Siberia. The ...
“In an idle and somewhat sportive mood,” the Des Moines Register’s Chief Editorial Writer Lauren Soth wrote a few paragraphs last February inviting a Soviet farm delegation “to get the lowdown” on ...
The Central Executive Committee of the U.S.S.R., in its first statement on Jewish policy, today outlined plans for reorganization of settlement work in the autonomous Jewish region of Biro-Bidjan to ...
Imagine sombrero-wearing William Randolph Hearst editing with Communist zeal the Great American Farm Newspaper and you begin to have some faint idea of Comrade Yakov Arkadevich Yakovlev. Since 1923 ...
FOUR years have passed since the rulers of the Soviet Union decided to make an end of individual farming. These four years represent a period of what may be called agrarian revolution from the top, ...
Thirty years ago, the Soviet Union dissolved. On a superficial level, events vindicated the longtime American assertion that socialism “doesn’t work”–Soviet consumer goods lacked both quality and ...
IT is stated by ‘Russia Today Press Service that the average annual grain crop in the U.S.S.R. for 1937, 1938 and 1939, notwithstanding the severe droughts in the two latter years, amounted to more ...