Summary: Are people just selfish? Soviet propaganda poster from the 1930s. Source: Eurasianet That’s the question I asked when looking back at the some of the big collectivization movements in the 20th century. After the Communist Revolution in Russia, the central government set food prices too low. Peasants in the countryside chose to consume their produce rather than sell it, and there were food shortages in the cities. The government’s response was to collectivize the farms – giving […]
