Collective Farms
Collective farms was a significant aspect for Russia, for was to help food production by growing a large supply of cheap crops to help make more of a profit. This was decided by the state, for they would choose how many crops were to grow, how much the workers were to get paid, etc. All of this was to help balance and manage the production of agriculture. Since the farms were mainly run by the government, they eventually became more popular and replaced family farms, which gave the government even more power over the people. In fact, almost half of the farms in Russia were collective farms and other farmers who refused to listen to the government were strictly punished and sometimes even killed. In addition, famine eventually broke out due to reasons such as low profits, the fact that farmers could grow for themselves anymore and that the government decided that farmers were only allowed to have small gardens and a few animals to domesticate as a way to survive. Problems like this caused the government to create reforms on the farms and make changes. One main reform was that collective farms were to combine with one another, increasing the the amount of acres per farm. This caused, however, the amount of farms to decrease as well, but allowed the government to handle the farms more efficiently by the time World War II started to form and require more production of food for the soilders.