Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev

Khrushchev gets an F in Haz's tier-list — and a specific agriculture indictment.

From the streams

• The grade (MAJOR UPDATES stream): "Khrushchev is F."
• The charge (COMMUNISM WINNING | WE'RE SO BACK stream): "After Stalin, Khrushchev centralized everything and ruined Soviet agriculture." Against Stalin's approach — central authority elevating mass participation "at the expense of the bureaucracy," kolkhoz markets allowed, kulaks as "land barons taking all the grain" eliminated.
• The ideological crime: the Secret Speech (Kruschev, Secret Speech) — "de-Stalinization totally unjustified."

The pattern: bureaucratic recentralization + ideological capitulation. Everything after runs through this hinge (Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, Socialism With a Human Face).

See also

• Yezhovshchina