Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Effects of Collectivisation
- Human Cost
- Between 6-10
millions people
died of starvation
in 1932-1933
- People opposed to
Collectivisation. (animals
slaughtered)
- 300,000 Kulak families
were deported (1.5m)
Probably 1/4 died
- Inefficient Farming
- Farmers were producing
less per head than
America or wester Europe
- Until mid-1930s
food had to be
bought from
abroad
- Not until 1940 that
grain production
matched 1914
- Decline in grain
production 73.3m in
1928 to 67.6m in 1934
- Benefits
- Stalin and communists
finally had greater control
over the country side
- Enough food was
produced to feed the
towns and the Red Army
- Life on collective farms
was not bad there were
schools and hospitals.
- MTS (Motor Tractor Stations)
were quite successful and
farming sped up after 1935
- By 1936 more than 90% of
land had been collectivised