Collectivisation

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  • Collectivisation
    • Impact
      • Famine 1932-1934
        • Caused partially by drought in 1931 and Kulak deportation
          • Drop in food production
            • Famine in Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Northern Caucasus
      • Armed forces dealt brutally with unrest, sometime burning down villages
      • 'Dekulakisation' meant talented farmers were deported
        • 1939 19 million peasants had migrated to towns
          • August 1932 anyone who stole from a collective could be Gaoled for ten years
    • Stage 1 1929-1930
      • New Procurement quotas
      • Propaganda campaign against Kulaks aimed to divide classes
      • Forced collectivisation. Peasants driven into collectives by OGPU and the Red Army.
      • 150,000 peasants forced to migrate North or East. 15% of Peasant households destroyed.
        • Some killed their livestock and burnt their crops to avoid being labelled
      • March 1930: 58% of peasant household collectivised
        • 'Dizzy with success' meant a return to voluntary Collectivisation.
          • October 1930: 20% of households
    • Success?
      • During period of peasant opposition production fell
        • Didn't recover until 1930s
      • Slow and brutal way of achieving Stalin's economic goals
      • 25-30% of livestock slaughtered by peasants between 1929-1933
        • Took until 1953 to recover
      • Ideologically successful as Capitalism/Private enterprise in countryside destroyed
      • Politically successful as Stalin exercised his control over the countryside
    • Stage 2 1930-1941
      • 100% by 1941
      • 75% by 1935
      • Kolkhoz- collective farm
        • Average 75 families
        • Had to deliver set quotas, farm not paid if not met.
        • Allowed to sell left over produce from 1932
        • Under control of member of Communist Party
        • System of internal passports from 1932 stopped peasants leaving
      • Sovkhoz
        • 'Socialist agriculture of the highest order'
        • 'workers' paid  wage directly by State
        • Created on land confiscated from larger estates.
          • Specialised in large scale production
            • Grain growing areas of Ukraine and Southern Russia
      • Machine Tractor stations form 1931 provide seed and hire out machinery
        • 2500 established
        • Agronomists, vets, surveyors and technicians sent to the countryside to advise
        • By 1938: 95% threshing, 72% ploughing, 48% harvesting carried out by machines
        • 1938: 196 thousand lorries in USSR and 1 million+ in USA

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