Stalin's Five-year plan
Joseph Stalin, leader of Russia (1928-1953), created a Five-Year Plan that included methods and goals which were detrimental to Russian agriculture in 1928. Stalin wanted to transform individual farms into large collective farms because he saw that the government was losing money to private traders. This required that the majority of farmers would have to work and live together on large state-run farms. Through these farms Stalin hoped to increase agricultural productivity, to create grain reserves for Russia, and to free many peasants for industrial work in the cities. In order to begin collectivization Stalin had about 5 million wealthier peasants, or kulaks, deported and/or killed and their equipment and livestock sent to collective farms. Many of the remaining peasants were forced into collective farms to work where they faced disease, starvation, and death. The effects of Stalin's collectivization resulted in mass disruption of agricultural productivity and incalculable human losses. The decision to collectivize the farming sector had its origins in the grain crisis of 1928. Private traders offered better grain prices than the government did . "It was calculated that the prices of agricultural products in private
thus be able to supply the key sectors of the economy and the Sovkhozy, kolkhozy and contracts signed with peasants' because of competition due to the reserves it had in hand . One portion of Kiselev's letter focused on the amount of nourishment the people received, along with the unsanitary conditions in which they lived. According to Kiselev, Doctor Kiselev was sent to Kartsovskii village in Western Siberia to report on the health of the people. Only one man was found by Kiselev to be in relatively good health, the rest of the people were starving and ill . One family that he saw had 5 children between the ages of one-and-a-half and nine, along with both parents . The father, Filipp Borodin, had worked 650 days total since arriving at the camp, which was approximately two years . In summer Filipp tended to grazing cows, and in winter he took care of the bulls . Kiselev questioned Filipp's mental health because he continuously wanted his children to die,
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