History - How Successful was Collectivisation? - Revision Cards in A Level and IB History

Successes - Political

The Soviet regime had extended it's political contol over the countryside, through management of the collective farms.
Peasants could no longer resist the regime or hold it to ransome.
Collectivisation had reinforces Stalin's control within the USSR and over the Communist Party.
Bukharin and Rykov lost power and influence as their faction was destroyed.
Collectivisation moved the USSR towards Stalin's version of Socialism.
Class differences in the countryside were abolished and capitalism was destroyed.

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The state was able to secure grain through grain procurement.
After 1932, farmers on collective farms could sell produce from thier private plot.
The Motor Tractor Stations provided new machinery to collect grain faster and more efficiently.
17 million peasants had moved to the towns to become labourers by 1937.

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Stalin's credability was slightly undermined through the backtrack after the 'Dizzy with success' speech.

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7 million Kulaks were eliminated, and there was a population imbalance between rural and industrial areas.
There was a sense of bettrayal or hoatility towards to leaders.
The best, most successful farmers (Kulaks) and thier expertise were killed or exiled.
'Collectivisation was, in effect, a civil war unleashed by the Party on the peasant population' Alan Wood.

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