Notes
- Collectivization - All peasants were to work on collective farms
- Called Kolkhoz (big farms), 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 (were not happy) (protested)
- They were killed or sent to Gulags in Siberia
- Seen as a threat to collectivization due to their free enterprise ideals
Summary
All peasants had to work on collective farms. The Kulaks (wealthier people) were not happy because they would now have to share their earnings. People who protested, or did not get the job done were killed, or sent to Gulags in Siberia.
Quotes
"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
Subjunctive Questions
Did collectivization really help the revolution? Or could it have been avoided with another/better historical course?