Since 1915, Russia was involved in a long transitional phase, in which major changes influenced substantially the society, the Russian economy and politics. However, when Stalin came to power, he showed that he aimed clearer targets compared to his predecessors. Within his reforms, agriculture was set to be modernised through collectivisation, but its prosperity began to crumble as the implementation of this system cost human lives and marked an economic disaster, whereas Communists managed to strengthen their political reins. However, was it worth it and who was it successful for? The Russian agriculture had been going through major changes within a compressed period of time from 1861 with the abolishment of serfdom, which was considered
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The First Five Year Plan was introduced in 1927 and its application begun in 1928. This Plan targeted the development of the industry, which required a considerable capital to survive. Since Russia possessed unused fertile plots of land and as the agrarian population constituted the majority of the population, Communists presented collectivisation as a system initiated to generate profit and support the process of industrialisation. Stalin wanted to reinforce the reciprocal bond between the agriculture and the industry, as the countryside would provide the industry with resources and the cities with food, whereas the development of the industry would support the agriculture with new farming methods, fertilisers and far more advanced machinery. As seen in source D, the country was backwards in many aspects. Even though the source belongs to one of Stalin’s speeches addressed to the country and we can’t call it absolutely reliable as it is a piece of propaganda, statistics prove that the Russian agriculture and industry were decades late. When the European countries were experiencing the Industrial Revolution, Russia still hadn’t abolished serfdom and the Industrial Revolution was now being compressed within 20 years. However, this speech displays Stalin’s nationalistic side as a patriotic leader, who truly …show more content…
The policy intended to merge individual labour and holdings into sovkhoz and kolkhoz . The Soviet leadership believed that collectivisation would be the best effective method of utilising the land and furthermore it would improve agricultural productivity. Collectivisation would ensure sufficient food resources in urban centres and Communists would provide peasants with new methods, seeds and advanced equipment, expected to reduce the workforce, so that more peasants would leave for the cities to contribute in the industry’s workforce. The idea behind collectivisation was that larger units of land would be administered and worked by farmers, as in NEP peasants only worked batches of land and the whole Russian countryside was disorganised. Collectivisation would be a good way to procure grain and to transport it to the cities much more easily. This new system would socialise the peasantry. In theory, peasants would share their goods, they would work in service of the community and they would all profit
The First Five Year Plan was introduced in 1927 and its application begun in 1928. This Plan targeted the development of the industry, which required a considerable capital to survive. Since Russia possessed unused fertile plots of land and as the agrarian population constituted the majority of the population, Communists presented collectivisation as a system initiated to generate profit and support the process of industrialisation. Stalin wanted to reinforce the reciprocal bond between the agriculture and the industry, as the countryside would provide the industry with resources and the cities with food, whereas the development of the industry would support the agriculture with new farming methods, fertilisers and far more advanced machinery. As seen in source D, the country was backwards in many aspects. Even though the source belongs to one of Stalin’s speeches addressed to the country and we can’t call it absolutely reliable as it is a piece of propaganda, statistics prove that the Russian agriculture and industry were decades late. When the European countries were experiencing the Industrial Revolution, Russia still hadn’t abolished serfdom and the Industrial Revolution was now being compressed within 20 years. However, this speech displays Stalin’s nationalistic side as a patriotic leader, who truly …show more content…
The policy intended to merge individual labour and holdings into sovkhoz and kolkhoz . The Soviet leadership believed that collectivisation would be the best effective method of utilising the land and furthermore it would improve agricultural productivity. Collectivisation would ensure sufficient food resources in urban centres and Communists would provide peasants with new methods, seeds and advanced equipment, expected to reduce the workforce, so that more peasants would leave for the cities to contribute in the industry’s workforce. The idea behind collectivisation was that larger units of land would be administered and worked by farmers, as in NEP peasants only worked batches of land and the whole Russian countryside was disorganised. Collectivisation would be a good way to procure grain and to transport it to the cities much more easily. This new system would socialise the peasantry. In theory, peasants would share their goods, they would work in service of the community and they would all profit