Stalin's policy of collectivism entailed the confiscation of the bulk of the land and farm machinery of the peasants into the control of the state. ... Fixed quotas were set at each collectivised farm and failure to meet these quotas led to imprisonment or eviction. ... The result was that yields from these small plots were much higher than yields from collectivised farms as the peasants spent entirely disproportionate amounts of time and energy on their own private plots compared to the collectivised farms. However dissatisfaction continued among the peasants as the best land and animals...

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In the country farmers were taken from their farms to join the army and because of this the production of crops decreased, along with farmers being taken train drivers, factory workers and people of other important trades so food and produce couldn't be brought to the cites or to the war fronts on time if at all. ... The living conditions of working class Russian family at the time was extremely poor with run down and unhygienic living conditions a serve shortage of food and the money to pay for any food that became available. ... Finally the farmers of Russia got their land that they cou...

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Under socialism farms provided their members with guaranteed wages, living accommodation, pensions , social insurance, medical facilities, kindergartens , schools, shops, central heating, fuel and firewood, fodder for privately owned livestock, transport for migrations, clubs, libraries and recreational facilities. ... Most of these farms operated with substantial subsidies from the state. ... For many households the consumption and sale of private livestock was primarily aimed at meeting families subsistent needs. ... In the socialist period the majority of livestock was owned by collective...

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His father, Vissarion Dzhugashvili, was a cobbler, hopping that one day his son will be apprenticed in the same trade; his mother, Yekaterina Geladze Dzhugashvili, worked as a house servant for various upper-class Georgian families. ...

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Agriculturally, collectivized farms provided the state with steady grain procurements ensuring cities could be fed despite the German occupation of 47% of Soviet pre-war crop area. Their success is evidenced in the occupying German forces retaining collectivized farms under German occupation . ...

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The murder of the royal family cast a shadow across the new government. ... Under his ruling, the rate of growth in growth increased in some collective farms however the virgin lands experiment stand as an example of failed reforms. ...

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Poverty that the Russians experienced then was a long-term cause of the Russian revolution with the families within the empire existing at the mere level of subsistence (Westwood, 2002). ... Lack of Government Representation The Romanov family, also referred to as the royal family, had ruled over the empire for a minimum of three centuries and in the nineteenth century, the ruler was known as Tsar (Fiehn, Corin & School's History Project, 2011). The royal family has ruled and did not have any form of representation among the people considering that Tsar easily ignored the Duma, a body t...

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