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Article Evaluation
The first paragraph is a good generic intro on what the First Five Year Plan. The rest of the section also gave a good insight as to what was involved within the plan and demonstrated a neutral explanation such as how it was supposed to help but how it hurt the farmers. The article is organized chronologically so you see the origins of the plans and what was happening in the Soviet Union at the time. Some of the sentences seem a bit rushed so there may need to be some editing and a little bit more elaborating but overall information was given. There are also a lot of citing's that need to be checked or found with some of the information posted. Many of the sources come from books and seem to be reliable sources. Also, with the information given there is an explanation behind it leaving little room to taking a side and just stating facts. Some of the sections are brief and can be built up on but there are great points being made and a good starting point. When looking over the talk page it seems as though there are flaws that were pointed out and slowly fixed over time about the statistics and other topics such as the deaths being added into the article.

Contributing References
Our group will be working on the First Year Plan and we have broken it down to certain sections that we will be contributing to. I have selected the failures of the first year plan to contribute information to. We will also be looking over other areas in the article as well so we are not locked into one specific section but this will give us a starting point when gathering information. The article itself is a good start up point but there are still some missing pieces that I hope we can add and fill in to.

Here are some sources I found that might help with out research.

Fitzpatrick, S. (1999). Everyday Stalinism : Ordinary life in extraordinary times : Soviet Russia in the 1930s.

Feigin. “Collectivization of Livestock.” Received by Sergo [Ordzhonikidze], Apr. 1932, Novosibirsk, Russia.

Pauley, Bruce F., Pauley, Bruce F, Ebrary., Inc, & MyiLibrary. (2015). Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini : Totalitarianism in the twentieth century(4th ed.). (pg. 86-89)

If possible I would like to also use the book from our course from module 2

Suny, Ronald Grigor. The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States. Oxford University Press, 2011.

I also found a first hand account from a letter of someone who write what they witnessed when visiting a farm town in Russia.

Feigin. “Collectivization of Livestock.” Received by Sergo [Ordzhonikidze], Apr. 1932, Novosibirsk, Russia.

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