This program was bolstered by Roswell Garst’s efforts to export seed corn and teach proper farming practices. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this program, in which many people moved to Kazakhstan in order to work as farmers, leading to a strong harvest in 1956 and disappointing harvests otherwise.
ANSWER: Virgin Lands Campaign [or Osvoyeniye tseliny]
[10h] Many of these farms were established as part of the Virgin Lands campaign. In contrast to a similarly named type of collective farm, they were state-owned and paid wages to unionized workers.
ANSWER: sovkhoz [reject “kolkhoz”]
[10e] The Virgin Lands Campaign was initiated by this Soviet leader, who denounced his predecessor Stalin in the “Secret Speech.”
ANSWER: Nikita Khrushchev [or Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev]
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