Collectivization In The Soviet Union
The process of collectivization started in 1929 in Soviet Union and was forced by a dictator Joseph Stalin with the help of Communist Party and its officials, who had a task to make sure ideas of collectivization were being implemented at all costs. Collectivization was an agricultural policy of taking lands, farms and livestock from farmers and making a big collective farm owned and regulated by the state. Apparently, a group that was affected the most were the farmers because their land and goods were first taken away from them by the state and then they had to work on that same land under control of Communist officials and without the right on the agricultural products they worked for. The state claimed all rights on products from a collective farm.
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A purpose of collectivization was to meet a “quota” for grain that the state needed to provide cities with enough food and for exportation because the Soviet Union was a major exporter of grain at the time. As a matter of fact, meeting a “quota” was the only thing that mattered to the state and officials, so Communist officials first forced farmers to join a collective farm, then took all food from them, and made them work on the farm in order to get a meal until the state eventually stopped giving farmers any food, condemning them to a slow death from
A purpose of collectivization was to meet a “quota” for grain that the state needed to provide cities with enough food and for exportation because the Soviet Union was a major exporter of grain at the time. As a matter of fact, meeting a “quota” was the only thing that mattered to the state and officials, so Communist officials first forced farmers to join a collective farm, then took all food from them, and made them work on the farm in order to get a meal until the state eventually stopped giving farmers any food, condemning them to a slow death from