GEOG 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Agriculture In The Soviet Union, Sovkhoz, Planned Economy
23 Dec 2020
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The geopolitical changes that resulted from the establishment of the soviet union were accompanied by a gigantic economic experiment: the conversion of the empire from a czarist autocracy with a capitalist veneer to communism. From the early 1920s onward, the country"s economy would now be centrally planned the communist leadership in moscow would make all decisions regarding economic planning and development. Soviet planners had two principal objectives: (1) to accelerate industrialization, and (2) to collectivize agriculture. For the first time ever on such a scale, an entire country was organized to work toward national goals prescribed by a central government. The soviet planners believed that agriculture could be made more productive by organizing it into huge state-run enterprises. The holdings of large landowners were expropriated, private farms were taken away from their farmers, and the land was consolidated into collective farms.
