Industrialization was creating even more towns, increasing this problem. So in order to feed his industrial workforce Stalin needed to revolutionize agriculture. He achieved this through forced grain seizure and the prosecution of kulaks and forcing peasants to work together in ‘collectives’. By doing so he was able to secure extra grain to feed the growing urban population of workers and sell the surplus to gain foreign currencies for purchasing foreign machineries. Though collectivisation may have had short term boosts to the economy but the effects of collectivisation were disastrous.
This was due to the inefficiency of Serfdom, and by this time, roughly 60% of Serfs had been mortgaged to the government. What this essentially means is that Serfdom was already beginning to come to a natural end. As the Nobles were the Tsar’s staunchest supporters, he was forced to emancipate the Serfs to allow the Nobles to refill their coffers and get out of their debt. As well as this, with the rest of Europe beginning to make large economic progress, Russia was beginning to look inferior economically and industrially, and it was Serfdom that was holding them back, with the simplest solution to just emancipate the Serfs and allow them to become more productive. The main reason that the Serfs were inefficient was due to oppression from the Nobles, which, coupled with poor farming methods, gave inferior results
And those who fall behind are beaten. But we do not want to be beaten!” (Document 1) Attitudes such as these helped to rally the people of Russia, so that they came together as a united force. People came together to provide workers for the factories, and farmers on the collective farms. Stalin created a feeling of pride and nationalism that also helped this country grow strong. Yet, for all of Stalin’s positive accomplishments, he also seemed quite the negative ruler, First, Stalin developed a system of collective farming that combined once privately owned farms into large farms, operated by the government.
He believed there should be a smychka (alliance) between peasants and workers (didn’t want to create differences between them.) • Trotsky wanted to abolish the NEP- Resented the fact that much of the USSR’s industry was under the direct control of the government. Hated the NEPMEN (traders who made large profits from the NEP.) Wanted to end the inequality between poor peasants and kulaks. Wanted to abolish private farms and introduce collective farming.
Strikes by workers crippled some parts of the nation when the grain and livestock couldn’t reach the market place. Factories shut down due to lack of coal to power them. Unions that went on strike used violence as their way of protest, and federal troops had to be called in to quite the violence. At this time in history, the citizens were supporting the unions even if they were young in their infancy. However with all the riots and violence, they lost the support of the public In 1890, law after law was passed in the Republican Congress, massive spending towards grants and appropriations.
However, the ruling class enacted to squeeze and exploit with their political power, which sharpened the contradiction and resulted in the uprisings. The nobles had to make concessions to increase the salaries and reduce the land rent. Due to most of the nobles’ income was from land, it caused the tremendous decrease of the income and put their finance into a difficult situation. The suzerainty of the nobles was lowered while merchants and financiers took the opportunities to grab more money and become the main decision maker in the government. It weakened the political power of the original ruling class.
They were forced to lay off all of their workers and close down. Unemployment was a major effect on many Americans during the depression. Unemployment affected the middle class the most. By 1933 nearly 40-50% of American’s were unemployed. The Great Depression also severely impacted the lives of farmers.
The Populist movements formation The rise of populism perpetuated from two issues that were dramatically affecting the lives of western farmers. Firstly, was debt that had engulfed most farmers who were adjusting to a new form of farming under dry conditions along the legal form of sharecropping, secondly was the social isolation due increasing farm size. Out of depression farmers formed social groups where talk of hardship took main stage. The late 19th century was seeing its largest formation of industrialization in the history of the nation and subsequently farmers were caught in trammels between the increase in costs and shrinking prices of goods. As a result, currency became a main focus along with increasing railroad rates and tariffs.
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was passed in 1933. This was the long-held premise that low farm prices resulted from overproduction. The government wanted increased farm prices by paying farmers to produce less. While the original AAA was declared unlawful by the Supreme Court, a new act correcting
The farmers were politically involved and feared the idea of capitalism. The farmers, the factory workers, the miners, and the railroad workers forged an alliance that although was more prominent in the farmer’s thinking than the other workers, produced lasting results. After close examination of historical literature, the ideals of the American farmers and of the workers in the American industries, indicators of the failure of the reconstruction of the economics of America became