The New Economic Policy had created a spread of privately owned farms across Russia that were difficult to monitor. ... The scheme involved at first the encouragement of small private farmers to incorporate their lesser plots into larger collectives which would be publicly monitored in order to regulate food going into urban areas and food being exported. ... Looking at actual figures the percentage of farms collectivised came to 98% in 1941 and in 1939 the output of grain, milk and meat as much higher than in 1913. ...

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Joseph Stalin was the soviet communist leader who's passing molded an era, and whose iron rule determined the lives of millions of people. Considering that he shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe, we may regard him as the most powerful person to live during the 20th century. Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili on December 21, 1879, in Gori, Georgia . Both his parents were peasants. His father, Vissarion Dzhugashvili, was a cobbler, hopping that one day his son will be apprenticed in the same trade; his mother, Yekaterina ...

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