Collectivisation Stage 1

Question 1

When was collectivisation stage 1 implemented

Answer 1

1929-1930

Question 2

What did Stalin declare in December 1929

Answer 2

To ‘annihilate the kulaks as a class’

Question 3

What was the effects of destroying the kulak class

Answer 3

• 15% of peasant households were destroyed (was meant to be 4%)
• 150,000 richer peasants forced to migrate north
• some tried to kill livestock and burn crops to avoid being labelled as ‘kulaks’

Question 4

What did collectivisation stage 1 entail

Answer 4

• get peasants to live and work in Kolkhoz collectively
• aim was 25% of grain farming areas to be collectivised
• by march 1930 58% of peasant households were collectivised
• this was enforced by propaganda, Cheka, army and fear of what happened to kulaks

Question 5

What was the negatives of collectivisation

Answer 5

• speed of collectivisation caused massive hostility
• voluntary collectivisation reverted to for brief period
• this lead to only 20% of peasant households being collectivised by October 1930