After He Came To Power Flashcards
What were Stalins economic aims?
Modernisation of Soviet economy
What methods would Stalin use to modernise?
Collectivisation and Industrialisation
When were the methods for modernisation both introduced?
1928 onwards
What were stalins motives
•confirm authority as leader
•enable Soviet Union to catch up with economies of western world
What type of farms did they set up for collectivisation?
State farms and collective farms
Why were kulaks a threat to Stalin?
•resisted collectivisation
•can coerce the peasantry
What did Stalin implement against kulaks?
De-kulakisation
What was stalins plan using the land?
Surplus peasant would become factory workers
Surplus grain would be sold abroad for funds
What happend during de-kulakisation
Seized land from kulaks
Families physically attacked
OCGPU anti kulak squads deported and arrested kulaks
How many farms collectivised?
1929-1930 half of peasant farms
