Why Did Joseph Stalin Collectivization

1.Collectivization began in the early 1930’s when Joseph Stalin became the dictator of Russia. Stalin had a five year plan come into action where the members of the communist party carried out his requests to the villagers to join the collective farm in the thought of industrializing Russia. The collective farm affected the farmers who owned agricultural land. The farmers were persuaded to join the collective farm with the thought of having an easier way to care for their land, but in reality it was a force collectivization. The members of the communist party also created propaganda for Stalin’s five year plan to influence farmers to join the collectivization. The villagers were told if they did not join the collective farm they were enemies
Komsomol- is an abbreviation for Young Communist League which consisted of fourteen to twenty-six year old people who are loyal to the communist party. The Komsomol were seen as the future of the communist party, they were also the beginning to every action in benefit the communist party. If a person was to insult or anything that would be considered to be against a member from the Komsomol part they were to be put in the Kolhosp Court.
The Harvest of 1932- The communist party announced that the farmers would be allowed to care for their land with advanced machinery, but most of the crop harvested would go to the state. During this harvest the farmers would receive two hot meals and two pounds of bread every day during the harvest, but were left with no wheat.
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Ukrainian farmers were successful and they produced enough food before the collectivization, but the efforts to impose the collective farm caused tremendous opposition from farmers that they slaughtered their livestock instead of giving it to the collective farm; they were not willing to work just for a daily ration of food for the worker. The land started to be useless and production of food became scarce, there was not enough production of food to satisfy the internal demand. Government demanded that farmers must fulfill their require quota of grains. Collective farm was the cause of the famine that killed millions of people during the time frame of 1932 through 1933; frozen bodies of dead persons were everywhere in Miron Dolot’s village, the great famine in Ukraine caused cannibalism among the village. The government did not do anything to control the famine; starving people were stopped from leaving their village to search for