Originally introduced in 1928, the first of two policies that Stalin utilized under his Five Year Plans was called collectivization. Stalin believed that the best way to accumulate large amounts of capital was to utilize the under cultivated land of Russia. This policy was born after an announcement at the 15th party congress in 1928 by Stalin, calling for a “transformation of the small scattered peasant’s plots into large consolidated farms based on the joint cultivation of land using superior techniques” (Ulam 91). Stalin claimed that collectivization, when it was introduced in 1928, had been a measure enthusiastically proposed by peasants and that much of the work was voluntary. However, this was the opposite of the truth, as Stalin’s plan