Red Magazine Blasts Professor
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Thursday, Sept. 17, 1964 University Daily Kansan
The Soviet press has taken some verbal jabs at a political scientist from KU.
"Bourgeois falsifier" is one of the names Roy D. Laird, associate professor of political science, is called in a recent issue of the U.S.S.R. journal, "Problems of the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union." The writer refers to one of Prof. Laird's publications on Soviet administrative problems in agriculture, a field in which he specializes.
Among other things, Prof. Laird is criticized for saying Khrushchev's decision to invest in the virgin lands was a "wasteful mistake." The KU professor calls the scheme to get food for an increasing population from a marginal agricultural area"at best unpredictable."
The Soviet publication refers specifically to Prof. Laird's article, "Kazakhstan: Russia's Agricultural Crutch," published in the Russian Review in 1961. Co-author is John E. Chappell, who was engaged in studies for a doctorate degree in geography at KU.
Others who take a beating in the Soviet article are Alec Nove, Rose Morgan visiting professor of economics at KU in fall, 1962, now at the University of Glasgow; W. A. Douglas Jackson, University of Washington (Seattle) geographer; Adlai Stevenson; and French and German scholars.
The Soviet article lambasting them is titled "Bourgeois Falsification of the Role of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the Development of the Virgin Lands."
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