The course of collectivisation in the USSR
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- Created on: 25-04-13 21:27
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- The course of collectivisation
- "emergency measures"
- rationing in the cities because of Kulak grain strike in 1928
- late 1928 grain requisitioning restarts
- under soviet criminal code 107 grain hoarding becomes a crime
- became an incentive for poorer farmers to inform officials as they recived the exiled hoarders land
- policy becomes unpopular with peasants and party drop the policy
- Bukharin convinced the party to drop it
- policy restated in 1929 due to stalins growing power
- Meat is requisitioned in the same year
- police given power to send kulaks to prison camps
- The liquidation of the Kulaks
- mass collectivisation begins in December 1929
- Stalin gives orders to liquidize the Kulaks as a class
- 1)"dekulakisation" marked the end of capitalist and independent farming
- 2) vastly increased the rate at which collectivisation occurred
- stalin had originally only said 30% would be collective
- however removal of Kulaks would have to be followed by collectivisation
- the poorest peasants where to lead the way. collective farms would own all local land
- peasants would pool resources and become more efficient
- the poorest of peasants however, weren't a majority of the population
- many destroyed property to avoid handing it over to the state (they where losing independence)
- 18 million horses and 100 million sheep dstroyed between 1929-1933
- many destroyed property to avoid handing it over to the state (they where losing independence)
- Stalin gives orders to liquidize the Kulaks as a class
- mass collectivisation begins in December 1929
- The twenty five-thousanders
- local communists where reluctant to enforce collectivisation.
- Stalin sent 25,000 "socially conscious industrial workers into the countryside
- they where eager to impliment communism in the countryside
- after two weeks of training they where sent out to teach the farmers how to use the new machinery
- in reality they where sent out to enforce dekulakisation
- found grain stores and round up Kulaks to send them to exile
- they where eager to impliment communism in the countryside
- Stalin sent 25,000 "socially conscious industrial workers into the countryside
- local communists where reluctant to enforce collectivisation.
- "dizzy with success"
- stalins halted his first wave of collectivisation
- the human cost of the plan was huge, Kulaks where either shot or died in jail.
- Stalin was unsympathetic |"moscow does not belive in tears"
- collectivisation caused chaos in an otherwise stable economy
- crops and machinary where destroyed due to resistance
- cause a brief state of hostility toward the government
- the human cost of the plan was huge, Kulaks where either shot or died in jail.
- politicals and economic reality hit Stalin
- process halted in march 1930
- released an article in Pravda titled "dizzy with success"
- essentially blaimed local officials for being to infusiastic
- at the time when the process was stopped only 50% of farms where collectives
- essentially blaimed local officials for being to infusiastic
- released an article in Pravda titled "dizzy with success"
- many communists belived the carnage had gone tooo dar
- process halted in march 1930
- stalins halted his first wave of collectivisation
- famine
- collectivisation continued in 1931
- caused a massive famine
- first time a famine was caused by government policy rather than natural disaster
- government set targets that where too high
- Failure to meet these targets was sabotage and would be punished
- farms who failed to meet these targets had their grain confiscated my the red army
- millitary checkpoints set up to stop food entering the Ukraine
- over 10 million people died
- the requisition wasnt very efficient. most the food was left rotting in barns next to starving villages
- food aid rejected as officially there was no famine in socialist russia
- millitary checkpoints set up to stop food entering the Ukraine
- people hiding any food to feed themselves where shot or exiled
- government set targets that where too high
- first time a famine was caused by government policy rather than natural disaster
- caused a massive famine
- collectivisation continued in 1931
- "emergency measures"
- rationing in the cities because of Kulak grain strike in 1928
- late 1928 grain requisitioning restarts
- became an incentive for poorer farmers to inform officials as they recived the exiled hoarders land
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