Collectivisation Flashcards
1
Q
What were the economic aims?
A
- Improve efficiency/productivity
- Produce should be sold oversees to support industrialisation
- Release manpower to work in cities
- Greater provision of seeds/tractors/machinery
- Improve city living standards
2
Q
What were the ideological aims?
A
- Increase revolutionary spirit
- Undermine capitalist values of individual profit
- Increase the true proletariat
3
Q
Political aims
A
- Used by Stalin to defeat opponents ‘Kulaks’ who benefited from NEP
- Their power needed to be taken away
- Collectivisation helped Stalin extend political influence to the countryside
4
Q
What were large peasant farms called?
A
Kolkhoz
5
Q
What were state farms called?
A
Sovkhoz
6
Q
How many party workers were sent into the countryside to suppress opposition (Kulaks)?
A
25,000
7
Q
Who was the propaganda campaign and persecution against?
A
Kulaks
8
Q
How many Red Army soldiers were used in 1930?
A
50,000
9
Q
What was Article 107?
A
- 1931
- Judicial decree
- Justified seizing of grain by state, permanent policy
10
Q
What % of farms did Stalin try to collectivise 1929-30?
A
60%
11
Q
By how much did food production fall 1928-34?
A
10% Due to the famine
12
Q
By what year was almost all land collectivised?
A
1941
13
Q
What is an MTS?
A
Machine Tractor Station
14
Q
What was the Holodomor?
A
- Man made famine
- Particularly affected Ukraine
- Killed several mil people
