collectivisation

Question 1

what was collectivisation?

Answer 1

bringing small farm units together to form bigger farms

Question 2

what was the idea of it?

Answer 2

peasants would collaborate to produce more food which would ensure no one starved

Question 3

what approach did Lenin want to take?

Answer 3

a gradual approach - ppl saw this as unacceptable as during a food crisis

Question 4

what was the system based on?

Answer 4

shortages were due to hoarding surpluses until they could make the max amount of money

Question 5

why was mass collectivisation created?

Answer 5

famine of 1927-28 prompted mass collectivisation

Question 6

what did Stalin want to do?

Answer 6

create ‘socialism in countryside’

Question 7

in order to create socialism in countryside what did Stalin have to do?

Answer 7

get rid of NEP and kulaks

marginalise rightists who supported more commercially based agricultural policy

Question 8

what did renewed collectivisation allow peasants to do?

Answer 8

keep small plots of land

blocks of 40 farms were organised through MTS

Question 9

was renewed collectivisation liked?

Answer 9

conditions improved but still disliked

Question 10

was renewed collectivisation productive?

Answer 10

more productive than collective farms

Question 11

give 3 reasons for resistance to renewed collectivisation

Answer 11

• abolition of the mir (1930) as it was a major blow to the village autonomy
• restrictions were placed on crops and other rural activities that was previously allowed
• collectivists were more likely to fuel food shortages rather than revive them- grain requisitioning part of collectivisation policy