How Successful Was The Stalin Regime In Russia During The 1930's

The people of Soviet population encountered very many hardships during the 1930’s and this can be attributed to Stalin’s poor leadership compared to the leaders before him Lenin. He took initiatives to replace the systems employed by Lenin and in introduce communism that was expected to favor the adverse industrialization advocated for by Stalin. To achieve this industrialization, Stalin used harsh and ruthless measures that saw extreme suffering and death of thousands of Soviet population. The first group that was negatively affected by the Stalin regime was the peasant farmers who were the wealthy community in the previous decades and controlled all agricultural activities . These people were the wealthiest and were responsible for all grains and meat consumed by the Soviet population. However,
According to Stalin, the Kulaks held the grains with the need of raising the prizes and he opted for requisition of the grains. The increased seizures of the kulak grains came as a great discouragement to the kulaks that were unwilling to plant grain that would be taken away by the government in its seizures. This situation worsened the condition of the grain shortage and this led to the introduction of the Ural-Siberian Method for obtaining the grains from the kulaks and the middle men as well . The government took illegal methods to attain the grains from the people as well including violence that saw eruption of violence as people resisted requisition of the grains. With the increased resistance to give out their grains, the Stalin government introduced the idea of grain collectivization. Collecting of the kulaks farms was introduced that was handed over to cooperation. With the introduction of the idea of collectivization, the New Economy Policy came to an end that had previously given farmers an opportunity to participate in free markets as they sold their