Collectivisation Flashcards
Effect of Stalin’s Great Turn on agriculture
Moved it to collective farming
Types of grain requisitioning that hadn’t worked
Ural-Siberain method and voluntary collectivisation
Percentage of collective farms in 1929
5%
Class which Stalin blamed for the grain requisitioning problems
Kulaks
Stalin’s quote about getting rid of the Kulaks
‘Annihilate the Kulaks as a class’
Date when Stalin did his war against Kulaks speech
1929
Date when voluntary collectivisation reintroduced
1930
Date when MTS launched
1930
Date of the start of the famine in Ukraine
1932
Date of the mass famine in Ukraine, Kazakhstan and North Casucasus
1933
People who drove peasants into collectives
Local party members
Groups used to identify kulaks
The Red Army and OGPU
Percentage estimated to be kulaks
4% of peasant households
Percentage of peasant households that were destroyed
15%
Number of peasants forced to migrate north and east to poorer land
150,000
Methods used by peasants to try to not be labelled as Kulaks
Killed their livestock and destroyed crops
Stalin’s goal for collectivisation in 1930
25% of grain farming areas
Percentage of peasants households collectivised by March 1930
58%
Stalin quote for party worker’s collectivisation methods
‘Dizzy with success’
Reason for turning back to voluntary collectivisation in 1930
Methods used had been too rigorous and confrontational
Percentage of collectives by October 1930 because of voluntary collectivisation
20%
% of collectivised households in 1931
50%
% of collectivised households in 1934
70%
% of collectives households in 1935
75%
% of collectivised households in 1937
90%
% of collectivised households in 1941
100%
Number of party activists sent to the countryside in November 1929
25,000
Reason behind sending party activist to help with collectivisation
Identified kulaks and searched of hidden grain rather than helped provide technical help
Motives of the poorer peasants to help with dekulakisation
They were rewarded with being able to use the richer peasants’ land, livestock and equipment and share with the collective harvests