HIS250Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Shakhty Trial, Holodomor, Stakhanovite Movement
Document Summary
Last blow to the collective leadership --> towards dictatorship. Kulaks were the problem = needed to be destroyed. Treated them much like colonized / conquered land. Quotas to fill --> didn"t matter if people actually qualified. Special commission: targets of people who needed to be deported, 60,000 "malicious" kulaks were deported. Movement took life of its own --> stalin could not even control. Failure of collective farms (lack of technology, resistance, etc. ) Confiscated grain sold abroad and used in industries (despite starvation) Stalin blamed it on the peasants (they are stealing grain) 1929 crisis : russia was able to benefit because it did not harm them, they could offer products to the west during crisis. Experts not to be trusted - saboteurs with enemy. Working class grew from 11. 6 million in 1928 to 27 million in 1937. Decrease of power of workers in factories --> system of one-person management. Kulak operation --> kulaks, criminals, clergy, other "anti-soviet elements" (670,000 arrests,
