WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Collectivization-The policy of transferring the own-ership of private farmland to the state. The Soviet state in the 1930s seized land and set up collective farms where workers would produce grain for the state to distribute. The policy proved disastrous for grain pro-duction levels.

Detailed explanation-2: -Above all, it meant that private ownership was to be the dominant pattern of ownership of property. Privatization of state assets and corporate ownership patterns were to be immediately brought in. Collective farms were to be replaced by private farming and capitalism in agriculture.

Detailed explanation-3: -Peasant resistance to collectivization took many forms: wanton slaughter of livestock, women’s riots ( bab’i bunty ), theft and destruction of collective farm property, and, perhaps most widely spread, an intentionally slow pace in carrying out directives of the kolkhoz administration.

Detailed explanation-4: -In many cases, the immediate effect of collectivization was the reduction of output and the cutting of the number of livestock in half. The subsequent recovery of the agricultural production was also impeded by the losses suffered by the Soviet Union during World War II and the severe drought of 1946.