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Date Posted: 22:24:15 06/09/03 Mon
Author: Mr John D Clare
Subject: De-kulakisation
In reply to: 's message, "collectivisation" on 22:09:33 06/09/03 Mon

Easy!
For the successes and failures of collectivisation, see <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.johndclare.net/Russ10.htm">http://www.johndclare.net/Russ10.htm</a>
if you go down the bottom of the page, it has a list of successes and failures, so (opinion essay):
In some ways it was a success...
However, in other ways it was a failure...
So, in conclusion I think...

De-kulakisation:
The kulaks were the richer peasants who had got rich under the New Economic Policy. They were, of course, opposed to collectivisation - it was they who burned their barns/ killed their animals etc. They were often powerful in the local villages, and tried to undermine and stop collectivisation. Stalin decided that they needed to be exterminated, and 7 million kulaks were put to death (='de-kulakisation'). There is no doubt that this was ONE of the factors which helpd to bring in collectivisation, but other factors (eg the Shock Brigaders/ Soviet officials/ Cheka OGPU)/ genuine Communist zeal etc) were also important.

You can find out more about the Shock Brigaders at <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.voy.com/121869/373.html">http://www.voy.com/121869/373.html</a>

But de-kulakisation was a Key Factor in Stalin's policy. This was the order that Stalin gave the Shock Brigaders in 1933:
Of you only one thing is demanded -- and that is to work conscientiously; to distribute collective-farm incomes according to the amount of work done; to take care of collective farm property, to take care of the tractors and machines; to see to it that the horses are well looked after; to fulfil the assignments of your workers' and peasants' state; to consolidate the collective farms and to expel from the collective farms the kulaks and kulak agents who have wormed their way into them.

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