In 1954, as the planning of the Virgin Lands Campaign begins, Khrushchev realizes that there is neither enough fertilizers nor good enough infrastructure for a high-yield, one-crop agricultural model in Central Asia. Instead the Soviet Union will have to rely on crop-rotation, for now. That way top-soil won't be exhausted in a matter of years, and the Virgin Lands won't turn out to be an old maid.
The first harvest on the Virgin Lands, in 1956, was a stunning success. Though, for example, the wheat-production didn't reach as high as it would have if wheat hade been the only crop as some had suggested, it nonetheless increased rapidly, as did other crops. The lines in Soviet stores suddenly started to disappear, the shelves were filled, and the prestige of Khrushchev increased. Over thext few years, lacks of silos, machine-parts, transportation and other initial problems were to a large degree taken-cared of. The cultivation of the desert and the victory of Labour over Nature, became a major theme in Soviet propaganda.
With his victory over the Stalinist opposition in 1956 Khrushchev star was on the rise, and the word Khrushchevism started to enter language. Khrushchev had woved that Communism would be established by 1980. The plan was simple: by achieving missile parity with the West detente could be achieved, realeasing large parts (military industrial complex, heavy industry) of the Soviet economy for productive purposes. This would together with the planned-economy (which, he believed, had showed it's superiority in the 30', 40's and 50's) for the Socialist camp to catch up and by-pass the West economically and socially. Simultaneously there would be a political and cultural thaw, eventually leading to full Communist slef-management around 1980, as the succes of the system made party-rule and the repressive apparatus unneccesary. This in turn would lead to World Revolution as the masses of the World realized the superiority of Socialism. With Socialism implemented world-wide armed forces and borders would eventually disappear, ushering in International Communism that would in due time dispose of money and (thereby) wage-differences. World war would prove to be unneccesary, as would the cruel machinations of Stalin.