Collectivization
Notes
-Collectivization: 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 or wealthier peasants who owned their own farms(resistance)- would burn them or walk away in protest -They were killed or sent to gulags in Siberia -Seen as a threat to collectivization due to their free enterprise ideals |
Quote
"Look at the kulaks farms : their barns and sheds are crammed with grain. And yet they are holding onto this grain because they are demanding three times the price offered by the government."
-Stalin
Political Cartoon
Subjunctive Question
If party officials hadn't monitored the outputs of the peasants farms, would they have gone against the collectivization laws? What would have happened to them?
Interesting fact
The first collective farms appeared in 1918
Summary
Stalin forced all peasants to work on collective farms where all the land was pooled together. The goal of this policy was to consolidate individual land and labour.