Stalipin's Land Reform Project Was Undone

The leaders of russia had always been well aware of the sorry state of their economic productivity. For the peasants, the revolution had only ever meant one thing, the land is ours. In plain and simple terms, there was no sense alienating the peasants. The chaos of the civil war prevented the bolsheviks from carrying out their ultimate objectives. They just had to hope the peasants would continue producing enough food surpluses to feed the cities and the red army. With no intermediate option and no time to devise one, the communists turned directly from encouraging voluntary efforts to demanding grain at a price they could not afford. As the effects of communism were starkly lessened than it had ever been