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Collectitvization

 

            Collectitvization was the transformation of Soviet agriculture, from independent .
             farms into a system of large state collective farms. The Communist believed that .
             collectitvization would improve agricultural productivity and would sufficiently produce .
             enough grain to feed the urban labor force. Any surplus of grain was to pay for .
             industrialization. Also it was to free up peasants to do industrial work in the cities. The .
             party could also extend its political dominance over the peasantry. It would turn into a .
             second serfdom for the peasantry, they would now be bound to the state instead of the .
             nobles. The peasants would be the ones to shoulder burden of building the Soviet Union .
             into an industrialization nation. .
             Stalin thought the only way to achieve rapid industrialization and catch up with .
             the rest of the modern world was through collectitvization. The Soviet Union needed .
             capital to fund its push for industrialization, and the only thing they had to sell was grain .
             and other agricultural products. The peasants were not producing enough grain farming .
             individually though. So Stalin thought collective farms would be the only way to produce .
             enough grain to meat his need of capital.
             At first collectitvization was voluntary, or so the peasants were told, when .
             actually they were told to go to collective farms. The peasants" objected to this, and .
             Stalin back tracked and said it was the local leaders that were forcing them to go. Stalin .
             also said they could leave and go back to where they were before, and many did just .
             that. The harvest of 1928 did not yield what was expected though, and the government .
             resumed forced requisitions and deliveries. By 1929 bread rationing was introduced by .
             the government, and by the end of the year and the 16th party conference had decided to .
             move to 100% collectivization. This would mean forced collectitvization.
             Forced collectivization was met with fierce resistance, which resulted in grain .


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