Emergency method adopted by stalin

Answer : i) He believed that rich peasants and traders in the countryside were holding stocks in The hope of higher prices. Speculation had to be stopped and supplies confiscated. ii) In 1928, Party members toured the grain-producing areas, supervising enforced grain collections, and raiding ‘kulaks’ – the name for well-to- do peasants. As shortages continued, the decision was taken to collectivize farms. iii) It was argued that grain shortages were partly due to the small size of holdings. After 1917, land had been given over to peasants. These small-sized peasant farms could not be modernised. iv) To develop modern farms, and run them along industrial lines with machinery, it was necessary to ‘eliminate kulaks’, take away land from peasants, and establish state controlled large farms. v) As a result collectivization programme started.