Students examine the problems with the collectivized agriculture program in the Soviet Union. They listen to a teacher-led lecture, participate in a property rights scenario activity, create a plan for maximizing the value of land, and...

Excellent site that is part of a larger collection of documents from the Soviet System. Site gives a good explanation of the Five-Year plans put into effect by Stalin.

Documents from the Hoover Institution detailing the gruesome details of the "reign of terror" that Stalin instituted against the Soviet people from 1936 to 1938 with some earlier and later accounts.

Stalin introduced collectivization of farms in 1927 whereby the peasants were brutalized by 1932 the same tactics were used on artists who did not represent the party line.