HIST 236 Chapter Notes - Chapter reading: Kolkhoz, Kulak, Eminent Domain
19 Oct 2018
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Stalin"s enthusiasm was based on the large units of production and that the kulaks represented counterweight to soviet power in the villages and needed to be eliminated. It was the middle peasants who wavered support between state initiatives and opposing them could be won over by collective farming by a combination of inducements and coercive measures. Peasants who resisted the enroll in collective farms were labeled kulaks and those who feared confiscation sold off their land as quickly as they could. By june 1929, 25 million peasant households were enrolled in collective farming. The central committee issued a decree calling for collectivizing 20% of arable land envisioned in the first five. Those who were identified as kulaks were subject to confiscation, resettlement,, deportation, incarceration in labour camps or execution. Fines and compulsory sales of property for peasants unable or unwilling to meet the delivery quotas drove many back into the kolkhoz system.
