Question

What were the results of the 5 Year plans on peasants' lives and on agricultural production?

Answer 1

Answer:

The five-year plans resulted in a very low agricultural community, which caused widespread famine and death among the peasants.

Explanation:

The Soviet Union imposed the collectivization of its agricultural sector between 1928 and 1940 during the rise of Joseph Stalin. This collectivization was made through the five-year plans, which represented a policy aimed at consolidating individual properties and labor in collective farms.

The Soviet leadership hoped that replacing individual peasant farms with collective ones would immediately increase the supply of food for the urban population, the supply of raw materials for the processing industry, and agricultural exports.

Planners regarded collectivization as the solution to the agricultural distribution (especially grain delivery) crisis that began in 1927. This problem worsened as the Soviet Union advanced its ambitious industrialization program.

Despite expectations, collectivization led to a catastrophic fall in agricultural productivity, which did not return to levels reached by the NEP until 1940. In the early years of collectivization, it was estimated that industrial production would increase by 200% and agricultural production by 50%. But those expectations were not met. Agricultural productivity was very low, causing a major crisis in the country's countryside, causing widespread famine and death among several peasants.