Collectivisation
- Created by: Het98
- Created on: 22-04-16 17:20
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- Collectivisation
- Ideological
- Peasants still using traditional farming methods
- Peasants attitudes remained conventional
- Lack of revolutionary spirit
- Produced for themselves rather than for community
- Led many communists to believe that collectivisation was essential if capitalist peasants were to embrace socialism
- Political
- Stalin motivated by struggle against Bukharin and party's rightwing
- Radical nature of collectivisation appealed to party's leftwing
- Stalin had peasant background
- Had visited a farm once in his adult life
- Believed Russia's agriculture could be transformed by an act of will and strong leadership
- Grain Procurement crisis
- Catalyst which ended NEP
- Price of grain rose
- Kulak's withheld grain
- Pushed prices up further
- Stalin called it the 'Kulak Grain Strike'
- Peasants could hold the government to ransom
- Peasant ideology was capitalist
- Kulak's withheld grain
- Ideological
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