sportation. The government pushed workers and managers to meet these goals by giving bonuses to those who succeeded and by punishing those who did not. Despite the impressive progress in some areas, Soviets had little to show for their sacrifices. Overall standard of living remained poor. Wages were low and consumer good were scarce. Stalin also brought agriculture under government control. Under the NEP peasants held on small plots of land. But Stalin saw that system as inefficient as well as being a threat to state power. He forced peasants to give up their private plots and live on either state owned farms or on collectives, large farms owned and operated by peasants as a group. The state set all prices and controlled access to farm supplies. On collectives, the government planned to provide tractors, fertilizers, better farming material, and to teach peasants modern farming methods (Krieger, Larry, Neill,
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