1. How Successful Was Stalins Industrialisation
... -year plans. To feed the ever-growing workforce with both people and food reform of the agricultural system was needed. Despite the fertile land exploitation in the Ukraine, which fed the Soviet Union, there were still regular famines and the peasants who worked on the farms bore ... peasants would be needed as workers and collectivisation was to secure these workers, and the peasant produce for the workers. By forcing peasant land owners into collective farms the Soviet Union provided an agricultural backbone to feed its industrialisation whilst preventing famine from ever reoccurring i...
- Word Count: 5589
- Approx Pages: 22
- Grade Level: Undergraduate