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- Collectivization - all peasants were to work on collective farms
- called Kolkhoz all land was pooled together
- Party officals monitored their output
- But 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 fee enterprise ideals
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Collectivisation was where all the land, tools, livestock and buildings were taken over by the state. The former peasants were paid based on what they had produced at the end of the year. The collective had to buy in machinery such as tractors and harvesters when they were needed from regional Machine Tractor Stations. Although from the mid 1960s the machinery was transferred to the farms. In return (some of the) collective farm provided things such as schools for their children and educational facilities.
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“It is not a matter of caressing the peasant and seeing in this the way to establish correct relations with him, for you won’t go far on caresses...” -Joseph Stalin
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What would have happened if the Kulaks hadn't resisted?