{"id":26887,"title":"For Great Corn!","dimensions":"95 x 59 cm","date_begin":"1962-01-01","material":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":12,"category_id":126,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection MHKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"Monoculture Soviet artefacts Maïscampagne","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eЗа велику кукурудзу!\u003c/em\u003e (For Great Corn!)\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":31,"permalink":"for-great-corn","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/061/048/medium_500/Image00018.jpg?1598518863","cached_actor_names":"","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Poster","nl":"Affiche","fr":"Affiche"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/061/048/large/Image00018.jpg?1598518863","poster_credits":"scan: (c) M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Corn Campaign was the mass introduction of corn into the agriculture of the USSR in the 1950s and 1960s as a solution to the problem of feeding livestock. The idea of introducing the foreign crop came to Nikita Khrushchev, then the head of the USSR, in 1955 when he met the American farmer Roswell Garst, who told him about the role of corn in US agriculture and its advantages. Shortly after Khrushchev\u0026rsquo;s trip to the United States, American seed corn was imported to the USSR. The Ministry of Agriculture established a corn research institute in Ukraine, issued a new scientific journal dedicated to the crop, and launched one of the largest propaganda campaigns in the history of the USSR. Endless slogans in newspapers praised \u0026ldquo;the queen of the fields\u0026rdquo;, and through poems, songs, posters, souvenirs, and even a full-length animated film titled \u003cem\u003eЧудесница \u003c/em\u003e(Chudesnitsa), the government sought every opportunity to popularise the fodder crop. Mass propagation of corn did not take into account the climate of the country, nor the agricultural traditions. In the early 1960s, a quarter of arable land was occupied by corn, which led to a shortage of wheat by autumn 1962. The inevitable failure of monocultural corn farming led to an agricultural crisis and the subsequent failure of Khrushchev\u0026rsquo;s political career.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eDe Ma\u0026iuml;scampagne betrof de massale introductie van ma\u0026iuml;s in de Sovjet-landbouw van de jaren 1950 en 1960, in een poging het veevoedingstekort op te lossen. Het was Sovjetleider Nikita Chroesjtsjov z\u0026eacute;lf die met het idee kwam aanzetten het buitenlandse gewas te verbouwen. In 1955 had hij tijdens een reis naar de Verenigde Staten een boer ontmoet,\u0026nbsp;Roswell\u0026nbsp;Garst, die hem had verteld over de rol en de voordelen van ma\u0026iuml;s in de Amerikaanse landbouw. Kort daarop liet Chroesjtsjov Amerikaanse ma\u0026iuml;s invoeren. Het ministerie van Landbouw richtte een onderzoeksinstituut voor ma\u0026iuml;s op in de Oekra\u0026iuml;ne, publiceerde een nieuw wetenschappelijk tijdschrift over het gewas, en lanceerde een van de grootste propagandacampagnes in de geschiedenis van de USSR. Eindeloze slogans in kranten prezen \u0026#39;de koningin van de velden\u0026#39; en via gedichten, liedjes, posters, souvenirs en zelfs een animatiespeelfilm,\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eЧудесница\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;(Chudesnitsa, De Wondervrouw) greep de regering alle kansen om het gewas populair te maken. Maar bij de massale verspreiding van ma\u0026iuml;s werd geen rekening gehouden met het lokale klimaat, noch met bestaande landbouwtradities. Begin jaren 1960 werd een kwart van de landbouwgrond ingenomen door ma\u0026iuml;s, wat in de herfst van 1962 leidde tot een tekort aan tarwe. Het onvermijdelijke falen van de ma\u0026iuml;s-monocultuur leidde tot een landbouwcrisis, wat op zijn beurt leidde tot het einde van Chroesjtsjovs politieke carri\u0026egrave;re.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[]}