Collectivisatuon Stage 2

Question 1

When was collectivisation stage 2 implemented

Answer 1

1930-1941

Question 2

What did it entail

Answer 2

• 2500 machine tractor stations established to supply kolkhoz with machinery and to make sure they met quotas
• in august 1932 it was said that anyone who stole from a collective farm would receive a 10 year prison sentence

Question 3

What were the weaknesses of second collectivisation

Answer 3

• dekulakisation lead to loss of 10 million good farmers
• 30% of livestock slaughtered by peasants
• livestock numbers didn’t reach pre collectivisation levels until 1953

Grain output didn’t exceed pre collectivisation levels until after 1935

• draught in October 1931 when combined with lack of skilled farmers caused production to drop and famine in Ukraine and Caucasus in 1932