How Did Stalin Want To Collectivize Russia

Stalin planned a five-year economic plan called collectivization and believed that under that plan, the USSR would industrialize, and become stronger than any nation in the West. Unfortunately, the USSR was made up mostly of poor peasants. Mostly, these peasants harvested crops using their hands and wooden plows. Therefore, to make the plan successful, he had to brings some changes in peasant way of harvesting crops and their lives. Stalin required two things from peasants: firstly, the peasants would have to pay heavy taxes to pay for his new factories and secondly, the peasants would have to produce more food for all of the new workers in the cities. In 1929 Stalin announced the “collectivization" of all farms in the country. In collectivization, all farms in the country had to join together and all farmers would have to work together to make the bigger farms successful. Stalin wanted all of the 100 million peasants in the country to join his plan although he also realized that peasants would not like and supports his plan. The …show more content…
The perfect example of this is Leon Trotsky who wanted to spread the revolution around the world but Stalin argued that the party must protect and rebuild Russia first. By using his supporters and creating deals with other powerful members of the party, Stalin got Trotsky exiled to Siberia and fifteen years later, he got him killed by his secret police. Stalin even purged his own members because he felt they were a threat to his leadership and also killed all the original Bolsheviks in these purges who worked for him and fought for the Russian revolution. The purges didn’t only affect those who opposed Stalin, but ordinary people too. Under Stalin's rule of the country, over 20 million people were sent to labor camps, where nearly half of them