Collective Farms Of The Soviet Union

Want to read the rest of this paper? Join Essayworld today to view this entire essay and over 50,000 other term papers

communism could would and should exist in the pre revolutionary way of
life.
Before Stalin came to power, the communist party for the most part
agreed that industrialization was necessary, however different sects of the
Bolsheviks were in disagreement about how this change should come about.
Buhkarin, the spokesman for the right wing Bolsheviks, warned against
antagonizing the peasants, for fear of losing their peasant followers, who
were already low in number. However, they were never viewed as a real
threat, so long as their material needs were met. Buhkarin's approach would
encourage higher production with incentives such as higher farm incomes and
offering a greater selection of consumer goods. The state would sell the
new surplus and use it to purchase capital for factories and farm
mechanization. The profit from these new work tools would be used
recursively to purchase still more capital, yielding higher production, and
greater profits. This new booming ...

Get instant access to over 50,000 essays. Write better papers. Get better grades. Already a member? Login

estates had provided the food on a large scale. In splitting up the
large estates into tiny plots, the government had succeeded in winning
support during the revolution, but made the land less productive.
Now that the small families that previously worked he land owned
the land, the output wasn't as great as that of before the revolution. The
farms only produced enough to feed their owners. Stalin greatly increased
the rate of collectivization in order to combat the famines maintaining
that the best way to raise agricultural output was to seize land from the
peasants and organize it into the centrally managed collective farms.
Day to day life on the kokhoz wasn't ...

Succeed in your coursework without stepping into a library. Get access to a growing library of notes, book reports, and research papers in 2 minutes or less.

CITE THIS PAGE: