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What Russia was like in 1931 (PHOTOS) Archive photo What this year meant for Russian history, what people looked like and what was happening on the cities’ streets. Year 1931. Stalin s reign was gaining strength. Soviet power was amidst its ‘Five Year Plan’ of a planned economy. Industrialization and construction works were being forced. The country was finally reviving its economy after the chaos of World War I and the Civil War, however, people’s lives were at constant risk, due to harsh state policies. Agriculture was being forced to operate under state control. Peasants were deprived of private property and “surpluses” of grain and cattle were confiscated. People were forced to join the kolkhoz, the Soviet form of collective farm that, by 1931, appeared in most villages of the countries. ‘Kulaks’, the “rich” peasants, and those who used hired labor on their farms, were resettled in Siberia or sent to Gulags. 

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