Question

Question
Which of the following economic changes did the Soviets make to Russia?

(1 point)
Responses

collectivizing farms and industrializing

collectivizing farms and industrializing

eliminating poverty and shortages

eliminating poverty and shortages

allowing serfs to own their own land

allowing serfs to own their own land

reducing government control of the economy

Answer 1

collectivizing farms and industrializing

The Soviets nationalized agriculture into collective/state farms and pursued rapid industrialization (e.g., Five-Year Plans). They increased, not reduced, state control and did not end shortages; serfdom had been abolished in 1861, before the Soviet era.