collectivization
Notes
- Collectivization all peasants were to work on collective farms to produce more food
- Kolkhoz all land was pooled together
- Commissars party officials monitored output
- By 1932 62% of all peasants collectivized
- Kulaks wealthier peasants who owned their own farms
- Kulaks killed or sent to Gulags in Siberia
- Seen as threats to collectivization to their free enterprise ideals
- Collectivization all peasants were to work on collective farms to produce more food
- Kolkhoz all land was pooled together
- Commissars party officials monitored output
- By 1932 62% of all peasants collectivized
- Kulaks wealthier peasants who owned their own farms
- Kulaks killed or sent to Gulags in Siberia
- Seen as threats to collectivization to their free enterprise ideals
Quote: "...A famine that came about without drought and without war." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Political Cartoon
BIG Question
What was the purpose of implementing collectivization and was it successful?
Summary
Was the idea to join farms and have mass production, the richer peasants that disagreed were sent to Siberia to prison camps known as gulacks.
What was the purpose of implementing collectivization and was it successful?
Summary
Was the idea to join farms and have mass production, the richer peasants that disagreed were sent to Siberia to prison camps known as gulacks.