Massive areas of arable land had been damaged by the Kulaks. Many were sent to Gulags or forced to migrate to Siberia to work in lumber yards. In areas of fierce resistance to the idea, violence was common. Around two thirds of farms had been changed. In 1931 the enforcement of the Collectivisation programme was by force. Peasants would be allowed to retain a small plot of land for themselves. Stalin altered the way in which Collectivisation was implemented. Enforced Collectivisation and the Great Famine Estimates of the quantity vary between 20% and 35% of all livestock being deliberately killed. Millions of cattle and pigs were slaughtered and left to rot. On the other, Stalin who had ideological reasons for changing the workings of Agriculture and an acute need to reform the sector.Īs Stalin’s orders to enforce collectivisation were carried out, many Kulaks responded by burning crops, killing livestock and damaging machinery. On the one hand you had angry Kulaks who did not want change. They would lose the benefits that they had enjoyed of being the better off farmers. It would deprive them of the life they were accustomed to. Some had a reasonably good lifestyle in the system that Stalin was wanting to replace. The peasantry had several tiers of ‘class’. All farms would hand over their land, crops and livestock. Collectivisation would no longer be optional. In 1930, Pravda Newspaper announced a change of policy. This slowed down the growth of towns and caused a supply problem for the new industrial workforce. Stalin’s idea was to all intents and purposes, ignored by the peasants. Not many kolkhozes were set up between 19. It was hoped that the peasants would take up the idea and send more food to the towns. The peasantry were being encouraged to adapt to the new idea and take advantage of the opportunity. Rural areas were encouraged to adopt the kolkhoz method.Items such as Tractors were made available for these new collective farms. In 1927 the idea was put forward to the peasants. Fewer workers would be needed and output would be more crops. Farm workers would live and work together. The idea here is to have large fields in which crops can be sown, grown and harvested using modern machinery. These, called kolkhozes, would replace smallholdings held by peasants with larger farms. With an aim of transforming agriculture so that it produced a surplus, the concept of Collectivisation was introduced.Ĭollectivisation saw the creation of ‘collective’ farms. Using new farming methods and introducing a new system was needed to change this.
Russia and the other Soviet states had historically produced less food than the country required. Agriculture needed to embrace modern technologies. Stalin wanted the Soviet Union to have more efficient farms. They were liquaded as a class and massive famine was caused by the enforcement of the Collectivisation policy. The Collectivisation programme was opposed by Kulaks. The farms, kolkhozes, became state controlled and geared towards improving productivity and efficiency. A programme of Collectivisation was introduced. At the beginning of Stalin’s rule, Agriculture lagged behind other countries. It saw mass migration and the persecution of the Kulak class. This was the creation of State controlled farms. Stalin’s rule saw the Collectivisation of Agriculture. The transformation of Agriculture was a key feature of Stalinism.
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