... that the Plans succeeded. Urban workers were forced to migrate to the rural towns and cities to be trained in new skills for the Plans. Collectivisation was Stalin's answer to his belief that Russia's agriculture was in a terrible state. Stalin believed that Russia had to be feed itself hence collectivisation and that at the very least the peasant farmers should be providing food for the workers in the factories if the Five Year Plan was to succeed. There were two types of farms set up the kolhozy and the sovkhozy. The kolhozy were collective farms and the sovkhozy were the state owned farms. Peasants handed over all their resources to the collective, including their land in return for the share of the profits. In the sovkhozy all land and goods were owned by the states and the labourers worked for wages. Collectivisation took place in stages. In 1928 the government ...

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