Was the policy of collectivization motivated more by a desire to destroy peasants traditional way of life or by a desire to achieve socialist modernization? Choose a side, discuss the evidence you find for that position in our two textbooks, and evaluate how successful the policy was in terms of the objective you decided to highlight.
Book：Peter Kenez, A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to Its Legacy
Geoffrey Hosking, Rulers and Victims: The Russians in the Soviet Union