To what extent were the economic and social reforms made a Khrushchev a failure?
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- To what extent were the economic and social reforms made by Khrushchev a failure?
- Agriculture
- Virgin Land Scheme
- Started in 1956 - 36mill hectares made available for farming
- 300,000 emigrated there
- initial harvest were good with a 90% increase
- Started to fall in 1960s - 1963 was a drought and there was a shortage of grain
- Problems
- 1957-60: 24,000 specialists sent to the virgin lands and 14,000 left due to poor conditions
- 322,000 workers moved to Kazakhstan but there was not enough housing ready
- No infrastructure: grain storage could only hold 10million tonnes though 20million was produced annually
- 1963: Khrushchev opens 60 new factories to produce more fertiliser but it was too late
- Virgin lands too dry to grow the same crops
- Virgin Land Scheme
- Housing
- 7 year plan in 1958: 12million city housing units and 7million in the rural areas
- Too small for most families
- Khrushchovka - concreate poorly made housing
- Agree:
- Virgin lands scheme were well intended but poorly planned
- bureaucracy made reforms very difficult
- reforms not radical enough
- Disagree
- Virgin land scheme was successful until poor weather hit in 1963
- radical change to industry by focussing on light industry
- 1/1000 had a washing machine to 77/1000
- A lot of political / social change such as getting rid of gulags
- Agriculture
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