“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 ...

This video explores the relationship between Nikita Khrushchev and corn cultivation during his leadership in the Soviet Union ...

Wengle, a political scientist, offers a novel approach to the transformations of Soviet and post-Soviet agriculture, emphasizing the connections between the state, production, and technology, as well ...

Whenever I think of agriculture in the Soviet Union, the old refrain that “Khrushchev sowed the Virgin Lands and reaped the Canadian wheat” comes to mind. It is a pithy remark that, coupled with a few ...

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 ...

WHEN Beria was arrested in the summer of 1953, one of the charges was that he had been sabotaging agriculture. The world smiled, believing quite rightly that other, more squalid issues were involved.

It's been called one of the 20th century's most staggering ecological disasters. The Aral Sea was once one of the world's largest lakes, but over the course of nearly half a century, this giant body ...

The paradox of Mikhail Gorbachev’s major accomplishments is that none was intentional—not the destruction of the Soviet Union, not the demise of socialist ideology, not the independence of formerly ...

Former president Ronald Reagan left as his greatest legacy to the world a role in helping accelerate the end of the Cold War. The global competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, ...