Short term economic successes

Procurement

Procurement doubled from 1928-1933

Exports

Export of grain increased by 10x from 1929-1933

Labour for industry

• 1 in 4 peasants left for the towns, increasing cheap labour in the towns and cities

• Gulags were boosted with ex-kulak labour and used for industrial projects

Grain production 

Production of grain fell, not reaching pre-collectivisation levels until 1935

Impact on livestock

• Peasants destroyed grain and livestock

• 25-30% of cattle, pigs, sheep between 1929-1933

• Took until 1953 for these numbers to recover

MTS and Kolkhoz flaw

• Only 1 in 40 collective farms had access to MTS

• Lack of lorries and need for some tasks to be still done by hand

• Kolkhoz peasants worked harder on their own plots of land