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Why did the Soviet government's transition to collectivization result in widespread starvation?
Peasants were not allowed to keep food until they met government quotas.
Collectivization’s new methods resulted in a slowdown in crop production.
Many people were forced out of jobs when farms turned to collectivization.
The government punished former farm workers who refused industrial jobs.
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The correct reasons are the first two.
- Peasants were not allowed to keep food until they met government quotas. The state seized grain and other foodstuffs to meet urban/industrial needs and export targets. Harsh requisitions left rural households with too little to eat.
- Collectivization’s new methods resulted in a slowdown in crop and livestock production. Forced consolidation, the slaughter of livestock by resisting peasants, loss and deportation of more skilled farmers (kulaks), chaotic implementation, and a collapse of incentives all reduced output.
Why the other choices are wrong or misleading:
- “Many people were forced out of jobs when farms turned to collectivization.” Most peasants were forcibly merged into collective farms rather than put out of work; some kulaks were dispossessed or deported, but the general problem was loss of production and confiscation of food, not mass unemployment on farms.
- “The government punished former farm workers who refused industrial jobs.” Moving labor toward industry was a goal, and resisters could be repressed, but famine resulted primarily from grain requisitions and the collapse of agricultural productivity, not from punishment for refusing industrial employment.
- Peasants were not allowed to keep food until they met government quotas. The state seized grain and other foodstuffs to meet urban/industrial needs and export targets. Harsh requisitions left rural households with too little to eat.
- Collectivization’s new methods resulted in a slowdown in crop and livestock production. Forced consolidation, the slaughter of livestock by resisting peasants, loss and deportation of more skilled farmers (kulaks), chaotic implementation, and a collapse of incentives all reduced output.
Why the other choices are wrong or misleading:
- “Many people were forced out of jobs when farms turned to collectivization.” Most peasants were forcibly merged into collective farms rather than put out of work; some kulaks were dispossessed or deported, but the general problem was loss of production and confiscation of food, not mass unemployment on farms.
- “The government punished former farm workers who refused industrial jobs.” Moving labor toward industry was a goal, and resisters could be repressed, but famine resulted primarily from grain requisitions and the collapse of agricultural productivity, not from punishment for refusing industrial employment.
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