HIST 1115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Kulak, Totalitarianism, List Of Internet Phenomena
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Stalin"s control of the party supported the ndp. #1 export for the soviet union was grain. Collectivization, 1928-1934 bringing all farms together into massive collective farms. Stalin brings this in suppose to make agriculture more efficient land becomes state owned. Stalin argues that in doing this he is taking out the kulaks, the wealthier middle class elite that are exploiting the system. Kulaks killed or sent away the burning of the crops and slaughter of animals, targeted in the ukraine, caused the great. Stalin admitted up to 10 million peasants died from this. 2nd largest economy, behind the usa however, these caused inefficiencies as hell people only working to reach their quotas, focusing on quantity not quality, and quality of goods decreases. Within this five year plan, russia extracted resources from non-russian republics and sold them back as manufactured goods, meaning there was an imperial element in it.