Khrushchev's reforms succeed

[EasternRomanEmpire]

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IOTL Khrushchev was reform-minded and he genuinely wanted to make the Soviet people's life better. His time in office, known as the Khrushchev Thaw, was a period of relative relaxation of government censorship and repression with some economic reforms. However in the end his reforms fell short of their objectives and he got couped in 1964 both because of the failure of his domestic policies and for the humiliation caused by the Cuban Missile Crisis.

But what if Khrushchev's reforms were more successful than IOTL and he managed to significantly improve agriculture, reducing heavy industry in favor of consumer goods etc. Managing to revitalize the economy.
Would he still get couped if his domestic policies are a success?
If he still gets couped how would the Brezhnev era unfold differently?
If not how would the foreign and domestic policies of the USSR continue?

 

[Mad Bad Rabbit]

To significantly improve agricultural output he needs to at least purge Lysenko and posthumously rehabilitate Vavilov (which he was asked to do in OTL's "Letter of Three Hundred" but refused).

It's probably too late to do what he really needed to do: re-kulakization, so farming is overseen by people who actually know how to farm, not by apparatchiks.

 

[trainvoi]

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IOTL Khrushchev was reform-minded and he genuinely wanted to make the Soviet people's life better. His time in office, known as the Khrushchev Thaw, was a period of relative relaxation of government censorship and repression with some economic reforms. However in the end his reforms fell short of their objectives and he got couped in 1964 both because of the failure of his domestic policies and for the humiliation caused by the Cuban Missile Crisis.

But what if Khrushchev's reforms were more successful than IOTL and he managed to significantly improve agriculture, reducing heavy industry in favor of consumer goods etc. Managing to revitalize the economy.
Would he still get couped if his domestic policies are a success?
If he still gets couped how would the Brezhnev era unfold differently?
If not how would the foreign and domestic policies of the USSR continue?

Khrushchev broke the economy in the first place - he collectivized the collectives that were responsible for the production of the majority of consumer goods (and military goods during WW2) during the Stalin era, AND messed with GOSPLAN, by replacing technocrats with ideological men in its decision-making, and changing the rewarding system from a system that based on contributions to decoupled from contributions (more egalitarian) that.

It was bureaucrats during the Khrushchev era who prevented the proliferation of computers, as they believed this would strengthen the influence of GOSPLAN. By the Brezhnev era, GOSPLAN was basically dysfunctional.

TLDR: Khrushchev fucked with the planning apparatus in a planned economy. Leave the Stalinist economy alone.