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In a conversation with Winston Churchill, Stalin admitted that collectivizing the peasants of Russia into communal farms had been more severe than the first years of the Nazi invasion.1 Forced collectivization turned the country inside out. It was a process of ruthless transformation in which the peasant population was coerced into providing the State with grain. Just as Stalin was impatient for the countryside to provide food for urban workers, the Komsomol was impatient for a chance to please Stalin. The League found a para-military role in collectivization, and made significant contributions to the achievement of Stalin’s goals.
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Notes
Adam Ulam, Stalin: the Man and His Era (New York: The Viking Press, 1973) p. 290.
Sheila Fitzpatrick, The Russian Revolution, 1917–1932 (Oxford University Press, 1984) p. 109.
Moshe Lewin in Robert V. Daniels (ed.), The Stalin Revolution (Lexington: D. C. Heath & Co., 1972 p. 79.
Robert W. Davies, The Socialist Offensive: the Collectivization of Soviet Agriculture, 1929–1930 (London: Macmillan, 1980) p. 52.
Ralph Fisher, Pattern for Soviet Youth (New York: Columbia University Press, 1959) p. 140.
Nikolai K. Novak-Deker, Soviet Youth. Twelve Komsomol Histories (Munich: Institut Zur Erforschung Der UdSSR, 1959) p. 65.
Roy Medvedev in Robert C. Tucker (ed.), Stalinism (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1977) p. 208.
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Baum, A.T. (1987). Collectivization. In: Komsomol Participation in the Soviet First Five-Year Plan. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18871-0_5
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