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- Collectivization- all peasants were to work on collective farms
- Called Kolkhoz all land was polled 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 their free enterprise ideals
Summary
As a result of collectivization, all peasants were forced to work on a collectivized farm called Kolkhoz. This idea worked and progressed the Russian economy, many peasant revolted. If this was the case, they were to end up in the Gulags.
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Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
-Joseph Stalin
-Joseph Stalin
Subjunctive Question
How did the "peasants" act out to this forcible rule of collectivization?