Collectivization
- Collectivization - all peasants were to work on collective farms
- Called Kolkhoz, all land was pooled together
- Party officials monitored their output
- By 1932, 62% of all peasants collectivized
- Kulaks wealthier peasants who owned their own farms
- Burnt down their farms so collectivization couldn't occur
- They were killed or sent to Gulags in Siberia
- Seen as a threat to collectivization due to their free enterprise ideals
- Called Kolkhoz, all land was pooled together
- Party officials monitored their output
- By 1932, 62% of all peasants collectivized
- Kulaks wealthier peasants who owned their own farms
- Burnt down their farms so collectivization couldn't occur
- They were killed or sent to Gulags in Siberia
- Seen as a threat to collectivization due to their free enterprise ideals
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Summary
Collectivization was implemented banning free enterprise which displeased the Russian farmers and peasants. Those who rebelled were either murdered or sent to Gulags (Russian Internment Camps).