Collectivization
- Collectivization: The movement of all peasants to work on collective farms called Kolkhoz. This was a way of freeing the land for state control.
- This agricultural technique was a way of supplying food on a national level. Party officials were charged with monitoring the Kolkhoz.
- By 1932, 62% of all peasants were collectivized.
- Kulaks were wealthier peasants who owned their own farms.
- Kulaks were killed or sent to Gulags in Siberia. This was the soviet method of dealing with the protests of Kulaks.
""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."
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Subjunctive question: If Trotsky had won the power struggle with Stalin, would his treatment of the Russian people (in his case, for the sake of food, not industry) have been more or less severe than Stalin's?
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