ABSTRACT
A large part of social and economic development under Khrushchev can be categorized as the adoption of new trends and technologies, the fairly routine assimilation of progress that was already part of world history and that was taking place all over the contemporary world; trends like prefabricated building construction, the assimilation of jet propulsion, replacement of wood and metal by plastics. Because such forward steps had a natural-course-of-events appearance they might excite little comment, and escape evaluation. They were not adventurous, and their outcome was unsurprising, but in their way they could be achievements.
