Collectivisation

Question 1

How did Stalin bring about collectivisation?

Answer 1

Use of OGPU

Machine Tractor Stations (MTS)
—> provided equipment to peasants

Dekulakisation

Question 2

What were the economic implications of collectivisation? ☹️

Answer 2

• 1928-33 number of cattle halved

• 75m tonnes to 67m of grain (1928-34)

• Removal of kulaks (most productive farmers)
—> tented tools to peasants

• Supply of machinery was slow

Question 3

What were the political/ideological implications of collectivisation?

Answer 3

• Kulaks liquidated

• 1% collectivised land in 1928
- 62% in 1932
• 93% 1937

• Socialism extended to countryside
—> Kolkhoz administration

Question 4

What were the social implications of collectivisation?

Answer 4

• Holodomor famine
—> 5-million died

• Agriculturally rich areas in Ukraine burned in protest

• Kazakh population reduces by 40%
—> Forced into collectives