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Indeed. Stalin effectively ended the NEP in 1929, eliminating private ownership of farmland and collectivizing agriculture under state control. By 1931, he had

Indeed. Stalin effectively ended the NEP in 1929, eliminating private ownership of farmland and collectivizing agriculture under state control. By 1931, he had reimposed state control over all industry and commerce [0][1]. And thus came the Soviet famines of 1932-1933 [2][3][4]. [0] https://www.britannica.com/event/New-Economic-Policy-Soviet-history https://www.britannica.com/event/New-Economic-Policy-Soviet-... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collectivization_in_the_Soviet_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collectivization_in_the_Soviet... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1932%E2%80%931933 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1932%E2%80%93... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakh_famine_of_1931%E2%80%931933 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakh_famine_of_1931%E2%80%93...

sudosysgen 5y ago
Yes, this is made worse by the fact that Lenin previously tried to do what Stalin did and found that access to reliable data was a major issue, but Stalin still went through with it, partly because he expected war and partly because he thought he could do it better. This wasn't something we should give the benefit to Stalin for but in retrospect WW2 may have taken a turn for the worse in the opposite case.