The post-Stalin USSR faced a number of significant challenges as Khrushchev took power, yet perhaps none more daunting than its agricultural capacity and its ability to simply feed its people. Although the agricultural reforms of the Stalinist era had begun to bring about improvements in agricultural production and by extension the availability of food in […]
Icy Convoys, Icy Hearts
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Amid the myriad debates regarding Soviet relations with the rest of the World War II Allies, often emphasized are the timing of the opening of a second front, the convenience of the alliance in the first place, what was said at what conference, and the various other dysfunctionalities one exhibited towards the others. Yet so […]
