Der Agrarkollektivismus

This file contains informations about the Soviet agriculture after the second five-year plan. At the beginning of the Communism Russia was not just the biggest but also the most backwarded agricultural country. But the Soviet leadership under Josef Stalin began in the late 1920s with a radical reorganization of agriculture. The Bolsheviks used economic, physical and psychological force on a large scale. The collectivization went as part of the "big change" associated with the forced industrialization of the Soviet Union. As the industrialization could not be financed by exploiting colonies or borrowing abroad, the peasantry has to pay tribute, according to Stalin. Nevertheless 22 years later, so the author argues, the collectivization led to an incredible rise of the Russian agriculture. In detail it is written how this rise in agriculture has been managed by the Soviet leadership and the peasantry. Yet the author also discusses the limits of the Communism in Russia. For example the machinery is still not enough for all the production, so the peasants still need to use their old machines and horses. Furthermore is the supply still not adequate and the earned money is not enough to support the peasantry. From the pecuniosity of farmers in more advanced agricultural countries the Russian peasants are far away.