Khrushchev - extent of economic and social change
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- Khrushchev - economy
- Virgin Lands Scheme 1954
- Crops were often grown in unsuitable soil, maize mania Kazakhstan, good cotton out
- Kazakhstan & Siberia climate ignored
- 1963, bad weather, under-fertilised soil
- Closure of MTS
- Incomes of far workers 1952-58 up by 2x, >NEP
- Turned into repair shops, disbanded from 1953
- Incomes of far workers 1952-58 up by 2x, >NEP
- Increasing peasant incentives
- K paid higher prices for grain
- Less taxes on framing profits
- Incomes up
- Moscow experts helped at local level
- 7 year plan
- 6th FYP after Stalin scrapped for being too optimistic, now 7 years
- Had to prioritise political issues like ending of Gulags. NKVD under party & state
- Bereaucratic measures
- Not 7 year plan. Less bureaucracy, incentives not coercion
- Decentralised economic planning by e.g. not requiring farms without animals to supply meat
- Govt/admin roles were owed to Stalin, did not like reforms undermining positions
- Virgin Lands Scheme 1954
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