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Stalin Economic Impact - Coggle Diagram
Stalin Economic Impact
Collectivisation
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Stalin wanted to merge all the small individual farms to one big collective farm. He believed that the larger units of land could be farmed more effectively through machines like tractors.
Hence, Party officials forced the unwilling farmers into collective farms
Rather than let the state confiscate their livestock, the farmers killed most of their animals, hence resulting in an overall decrease in livestock
In order to encourage the use of tractors, Stalin ordered 17 million horses killed, but there were insufficient tractors
Instead of sending the excess grain to the state, the farmers simply grew less as they were not motivated to work in the collective farms
Food shortages began to spread as the state simply exported the grain grown to buy industrial equipment instead of distributing it to the peasants. The shortage was only made worse by droughts and floods, resulting in famines
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This resulted in many deaths of peasants from starvation, as well as the deaths of livestock, hence delaying the growth of the economy
Rapid Industralisation
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Factories in the cities produced equipment and machinery for farming like tractors, which reduced the farm workers needed, so these men can go and work in the factories instead
More grain and other crops could be produced, and hence these larger, more efficient and mechanised farms owned by the state would then be able to produce more food to supply the cities
Emphasis was set on the development of heavy industries such as coal, iron, steel, and electricity.
However, like Collectivisation, the state set quotas for producing such machinery and other factory goods, and fixed the working hours and wages of factory workers
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Hundreds of new factories were built, the industrial workforce expanded