Was Stalin's collectivisation successful?

Question

I know there was resistance, the plan was to produce more grain but did it actually happen? Was more grain produced through collectivisation?

Answer 1

Genocide?

Collectivisation  worked so badly - for instance, often land was set up for mechanized farming, when there was no such mechanical equipment available - that many people starved and died.

In fact, so many people died, that many thought it was deliberate genocide.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

Answer 2

No it was an utter failure.

The kulaks were, in reality, the best farmers - that is why they were richer than the other peasants, and Stalin deported them to the barren Kazakh steppes.

The peasants that were left so resented collectivisation that they slaughtered their livestock and sold, ate or processed their grain stocks to prevent the collective taking it over.

Iansand9876 is correct, each peasant had a small plot, like a large allotment, where they grew things like fruits, onions, marrows, potatoes etc, and this 4% of the land under cultivation was producing over 50% of the agricultural produce.

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/col...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesiz...

Answer 3

A complete and utter failure.

Answer 4

I vaguely remember an extraordinary statistic from a few decades ago.  Over 50% of the agricultural output of the USSR came from 4% of the land.  It is no coincidence that 4% of the productive land of the USSR remained in private hands after collectivisation.

Collectivisation did not work in Russia.  It did not work in China.