the country had a economic structure without the famous proletarian base that Marx prophesized. The Leninist regime saw this lack of workers as a big obstacle in the way of industrialization and sought to remedy the problem by driving more people into the cities.
             Collectivization and grain requisition was the solution that the party came up with to increase both the work force and food supply. Although collectivization was virtually abandoned due to the lack of success under Lenin, when Stalin took power, he sought to revive the policy, and was determined to make it work. Theoretically, by reducing the number of farms, and increasing the capacity of each individual farm with new technology, people would be freed to work in the cities. This more "efficient" way of farming was intended to increase the production of agricultural products and to create an urban labor force able to feed the industrial machine. Industrialization would then lead to speedy militarization and the securing of national power and prestige. However, things did not turn out as planned.
             Collectivization had dreadful impacts on the peasant population. Land was taken away from the people – who have relied on it for hundreds of years – and collectivized under state control. Farmers were herded into shared housing, and mandated to work together on much larger farms. The peasants of Russia had never shared an intimate identity with their government. After all, they have been conquered and reshuffled through many regimes before; peasants felt more as subjects of an overarching control than as active participants as citizens of a nation. Thus, under collectivization, farmers had no will to work and were incredible disgusted with the state's impinging actions. They took to such drastic measures as burning their crops and slaughtering their animals in defiance of authority.
             The broad failure of collectivization accompanied ...