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"I believe in one thing only, the power of human will". Joseph Stalin
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Summary:
The Soviet leadership was confident that the replacement of individual peasant farms by collective ones would immediately increase the food supply for urban population, the supply of raw materials for processing industry, and agricultural exports. Collectivization was thus regarded as the solution to the crisis of agricultural distribution, mainly in grain deliveries, that had developed since 1927. The sweeping collectivization often involved tremendous human and social costs.
- Collectivization - all peasants were to work on collective farms. Mainly kolkhozes land was pulled together.
- It was enforced under Stalin between 1928 and 1940.
- Kulaks wealthier peasants who owned their own farms resisted and started burning the land.
- The goal of this policy was to consolidate individual land and labour into collective farms.
Summary:
The Soviet leadership was confident that the replacement of individual peasant farms by collective ones would immediately increase the food supply for urban population, the supply of raw materials for processing industry, and agricultural exports. Collectivization was thus regarded as the solution to the crisis of agricultural distribution, mainly in grain deliveries, that had developed since 1927. The sweeping collectivization often involved tremendous human and social costs.