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Essay Archive - Collective Farms of the Soviet Union
Collective Farms of the Soviet Union
The Soviet kolhoz, the term for a collective farm owned by all of
its members, was a model of the inefficiency and tyranny of Joseph Stalin,
their originator. Introduced as a way to industrialize Russia, they
alternated between being a great success and being a utterly complete
failure. Although Stalin's plans did in the end industrialize Russia, the
costs were unjustifiable. An entire class of people was eliminated and
famine was wrought on an entire republic.
Stalin, who took control of the Communist Party after the death of
Lenin in 1924, believed that the only way to cre....
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