notes
- all peasants were to work on collective farms
- called Kolkhoz
- all land was pooled together
- Party officials monitored their output
- By 1932 62% of all peasants collectivized
- Kulaks wealthier peasants who owned their own farms
- They were killed or sent to Gulags in Siberia
- Seen as a threat to collectivization due to there free enterprise ideals
summary
Collectivization was the pooling together of all the farms and land for maximum efficiency and growth of crops. By 1932 62% of all peasants were collectivized. The Kulaks, richer and wealthier men and woman who owned there own farms that did not want to give it up were killed or sent to Gulags in Siberia.
"Farmers present by themselves the basic force of the national movement. Without farmers there can be no strong national movement. This is what we mean when we say that the nationalist question is, actually, the farmers' question." - Joseph Stalin
What would happen if the people of Russia were to start another revolution because of that?