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THE VIRGIN LANDS by Brezhnev, Leonid
Progress, Moscow, (1979), 2nd printing.. 183 pp, + photographs at rear, 16 mo (6 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w photographs. "The virgin lands development is part of my life. It all began on a frosty Moscow day at the end of January 1954, when I was summoned to the Central Comm. ittee of the CPSU. The problem was familiar to me alread and this was not the first time I had heard about the virgin lands; the new thing was that I would be entrusted with their development on a mass scale. The project was to be launched in K. a z a khstan in the coming spring and the schedule was tight..." Leonid Brezhnev looks back at the plan to boost grain production in the U.S.S.R. by opening up virgin and abandoned lands. Very minor edge wear to boards. Dust jacket has fading to . sp in e color and very minor edge wear. NF/VG-.
- Bookseller: Capricorn Books
 (CA)
- Bookseller Inventory #: 12630
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Progress, Moscow, (1979), 2nd printing.
- Keywords: U.S.S.R., Russia, Soviet, Communism, State farms, Farming, Agriculture, Kazakhstan, Leonid Brezhnev, Co-operatives, Grain.
- Subjects:
HISTORY / General;
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