The five-year plan from 1928 to 1933 was to turn the Soviet Union into a country of workers. The idea was that this would allow the state to divert resources towards industrialization. In 1931 and especially in 1932, there's a transition to collectivized agriculture in Ukraine. There is a bad harvest, and then you have to interpret that. Stalin gives a highly politicized interpretation of a failure which is basically about his own policy.

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