Part one of term paper
The Soviet kolhoz, the term for a collective farm owned by all of its members, was a model of the inefficiency and tyranny of Joseph Stalin, their originator. Introduced as a way to industrialize Russia, they alternated between being a great success and being a utterly complete failure. Although Stalin's plans did in the end industrialize Ru ...

Part two of term paper
... this meant the conversion of Russia from a state of tradesmen and family farms, in which communism seemed implausible, to one of huge factories and large, efficient farms. In theory, industrialization would increase the number and hence the strength of the proletariat as a class, thwart an already staunchly anticommunist world, and fulfill Marx's promise of material wealth following the revolution. The idea of industrialization as the means to true socialism never occurred to Lenin. He assu ...