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This 16 page paper considers Stalin and his policies of collectivism in agriculture and industrialisation in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1933. The social aspect which led to this era and making it possible are considered, along with the contradictory role of the Red Army, and the famine of 1933. The paper also includes the ways in which the peasants resisted and the consequences of that resistance and the reasons for the world outside of the Soviet Union to be so completely unaware of the real internal situation. The bibliography cites 15 sources, three of which are primary media sources from the era of Stalin and this paper.
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These were mostly due to the ideas of two men, Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin. It has been argued that Stalin took the only practical course that was available to
him1. However, there are many critics that would disagree with this statement. Much of the reasoning behind the actions were the communist ideals, and the objective not to be left
behind by Western superiority, and to fulfil Russias potential greatness2. It was Stalin that was behind The Soviet Unions cultural revolution of 1928-313. This was aimed at citizens within the
union, to educated and train them, whilst still transforming the individual into a revolutionary vanguard2. This change was occurring against a string and extreme background. Stalin had inherited the apparatus
of totalitarianism set up by Vladimir Lenin, and as an example of the controlling nature of the authorities Trotsky had been exiled from the Soviet Union in 19283. Arguably, Trotsky
saw the lesson that the rest of the world would take decades to learn II. Collective Farms In 1928, Stalin announced his new plans for the country. This was to
consist of all out state-organised industrialisation and a strong and non-negotiable policy of collectivism. This collectivism forced farmers to hand over their land, putting in into sate control and
ownership. The penalty for failure to comply with this new directive was farms or be shot, exiled, or enslaved and worked to death under terrible conditions in Siberian labour camps
(The Churchill Society). This collectivisation effected the 100-million-strong Russian peasantry, poor, middle-class and so-called Kulaks4. These farms or their workers were now exploited to the extreme and caused many problems
for all those concerned, the peasants, the middle classes and the kulaks. After a bloody encounter, this is what Time Magazine had to say in 1929; "During the past twelvemonth
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