Was Collectivization a success?
Mindmap on Collectivisation as a whole, doesn't really mention much about the Ukrane famine, shall make a serperate mindmap on that :)
Hope this is useful
sorry for any spelling misrtakes
- Created by: Dracupine
- Created on: 29-03-13 23:55
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- Was Collectivization a success?
- Failure for Government
- 1917 22 million and 1940 67 million moved to cities
- 1928 18% soviets working class 50% 1939
- Politically successful for Government
- Grain procured and exported by state increased
- Tonnes of grain procured
- 1928- 11 million
- 1929- 16 million
- 1933- 23 million
- Grain exports 1928- 0.03 million tonnes but 1931- 5 million tonnes
- Increased urban population (larger working force)
- All farms collectivised by WW2 (1938)
- Economic Failure
- Failed to raise agricultural production
- Those exiled worked the hardest, resulting in loss of talent and production rate
- 1933- 9 million tonnes less than 1926 harvest
- Horses 1/2 between 1928 and 1932
- Pigs dropped by 65% 1928-1932
- Hiring tractors was high. Peasants could not afford
- Did not hire
- Not as effective as horses
- Across Russia 1/2 of farms still left out of network
- 25% peasants household's collectivised. Wages dropped 1/2 & meat consumption fell 2/3rds
- Political Success for Government
- Propaganda against Kulaks
- "Kulak Spirit" blamed for failures
- Increase in Urban population (larger working force)
- MTS/Tractors help count population......
- Control over peasants
- Propaganda against Kulaks
- Human Cost
- 9,500,000 - 10 million exiled dekulakisation
- 10% of peasants in 1 village.
- Underpaid
- unrealistic targets
- Most Peasants angered by collectivisation
- families sent to Siberia to Gulags (Dekulakisation)
- 1929- 15,000
- 1930- 240,000
- 1931- 285,000
- Cities value of life fell sharply
- Cannibalism and consumption of pets in order to survive
- "Collectivization was a political success but an economic failure and a human disaster"
- Failure for Government
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