Collectivization
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- 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 - wealthier peasants who owned their own farms
- were killed or sent to Gulags in Siberia
- because they were seen as a threat to collectivization
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Collectivization was a system used by the Russians, to keep complete control of their farms. Called Kolkhoz, it pooled all the farm land together, and forced peasants to work together. Party officials would monitor the output of each farm, as to make sure it would reach its quota. by 1932, 62% of all farms in Russia were collectivized. Kulaks were Wealthy peasants who owned their own Farm. They were either sent to Gulags in Siberia, or killed because they were seen as a threat to Collectivization
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“Stalin had developed an interesting new theory: that resistance to socialism increases as its successes mount, because its foes resist with greater desperation as they contemplate their final defeat. Thus any problem in the Soviet Union could be defined as an example of enemy action, and enemy action could be defined as evidence of progress.
-Timothy Snyder
-Timothy Snyder
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Who were the main supporters of Collectivization?