HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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Peasants were encouraged to sell surplusgrain for personal profit.
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The production of consumer goodsincreased
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National revenue increased allowing forgreater individual spending
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The government controlled agriculturethrough collective farms
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Detailed explanation-1: -This caused a major famine in the countryside (1932–33) and the deaths of millions of peasants. Despite these great costs, the forced collectivization achieved the final establishment of Soviet power in the countryside.
Detailed explanation-2: -Joseph Stalin’s purges resulted in the execution of thousands, while millions more were sent to forced labor camps. The decade began with the forced collectivization of farms throughout the Soviet Union, a process that resulted in the deaths of millions by starvation.
Detailed explanation-3: -Note: In 1929, Stalin revised the plan to include the establishment of “kolkhoz” collective farming systems covering thousands of acres of land and employing hundreds of thousands of peasants. The establishment of collective farms effectively obliterated the kulaks as a social class.
Detailed explanation-4: -By collectivizing the farm system Stalin believed the country would be able to supply grain to everybody within the USSR.