Joseph Stalin

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to reach their quotas they were publicly criticized and humiliated. The five - year plan in the end was able to show huge increase in production percentage and was able to increase productivity of machines. In document 3 you can see by the graph how much production in coal increased after the first five-year plan.
Stalin began attacking kulaks for not supplying enough food for industrial workers. He wanted to eliminate them as a social class as seen in document 4 it tells us he wanted to eliminate them because they wanted to get rid of any capitalist elements from agriculture. He also started thinking of the idea of setting up collective farms. This idea involved small farms joining together to form one large – scale units. By doing this they would by able to afford the latest in machinery. Stalin believed that this policy would also increase production of food. But private property was being taken away from farmers making them resist. Those who resisted were murdered or sent ...

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