Consequences of Collectivisation

Question 1

What are the factors?

Answer 1

Political
Effects on rural areas
Industrialisation and Urbanisation

Question 2

Explain the Political factors

inc. the result for Stalin

Answer 2

> Increasing anger towards communist party
United the Party behind Stalin - fear of Civil War and Left Wings
Stalin emerged stronger than ever before

Question 3

Explain the effects on rural areas as a factor

Answer 3

> Devastating effects on Peasantry
Mechanisation - tractors meant less horses and surplus workers
Success = all farms were collectivised by 1941 - however are great social costs

Question 4

Explain the industrialisation and urbanisation factor

Answer 4

> Grain export increased
Living conditions dropped drastically - slums
Blamed ‘Kulak spirits’ - increased workers suspicions of socialism in the countryside