AHC:Make Collectivization succesful

From any POD ranging from 1905 onwards make the attempts to collectivize agriculture in the U.S.S.R succesful or at least less deadly.
 
From any POD ranging from 1905 onwards make the attempts to collectivize agriculture in the U.S.S.R succesful or at least less deadly.
On the contrary, the Soviet "collectivization" was very successful at accomplishing what the Party wished it to.

Namely, the collectivization destroyed the Soviet peasantry as an independent class, forcing them into industrial proletarian relations of production. Further, it enabled the rationalization of agricultural production and the quick deployment of mechanization to agriculture, which would free up reserve armies of labor to allow industrialization. And last but not least, the requisitioned grain was sold on the world market to acquire hard currency to finance the development of heavy industry in the USSR.

If we judge the collectivization programs based on what the Party actually intended it for, it was a great success. The human cost of collectivization was never something the Party leadership lost sleep over.
 
I think it would be possible if it was based on volunteer entry and operating under free(ish) market conditions. That would allow economies of scale to apply, ease the mechanisation (cost is shared and size of commune makes it profitable to mechanise) while free(ish) market conditions encourage larger and more efficient production as more work and greater output means greater profits for indivisual member/family.

Though once such operations become more efficient and profitable they would squeeze out smaller farms who would be forced either to form their own communes, join existing ones or go out of business, putting in question actual volunteer entry.

But it would require different system in Russia.
 
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