Summary.

Joseph Stalin introduced collectivization to increase the production of goods. All privately owned farms would be put together to form large farms which were expected to produce more

Collectivization 

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  • Policy pursued under Stalin between 1928 and 1940
  • Consolidate individual land and labour into collective farms
  • Soviet leadership was confident the unification of single peasant farms would increase production
  • Collectivization was regarded as solution to agricultural distribution
  • In the early 1930's over 90% of agricultural land was "collectivized"
  • Many farms were lost because of farmers who would rather burn their land than give it away