These drastic measures allowed Stalin to speak of "satisfactory procurement", with the backdrop of the 1927 famine which resulted from the Scissors Crisis of the mid 1920s.Suny, Ronald Grigor. The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR and the Successor States. New York: Oxford, 1998. Some researchers believe that this relative success convinced Stalin of the efficiency of a forced administrative approach to the peasantry, further developed in the policy of total collectivization in the USSR. This policy was declared an immediate priority at the November 1929 Plenum of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party.
