Collectivisation

• From 1934, grain production began to slowly recover as peasant resistance to collectivisation was finally broken.
• In 1935, the government decided to allow peasants to sell produce from their private plots in order to boost the supply of food.
• Peasants sold milk, eggs, meat and wool among other products at collective farm markets.
• Allowing private plot selling from 1935 had a significant impact in increasing the amount of food supplied from collective farms but it did represent a move away from socialist ideas as the peasants were now able to profit from their efforts.
• By the end of the 1930s, nearly 75% of the nation's milk and meat and nearly 50% of its wool, vegetables and fruit was coming from private plots, providing most families with half of their total income.
• By 1937, 93% of peasant households had been collectivised and in 1941, it was 100%.