Aims and Methods of Collectivisation Flashcards

What does 'collectivisation' mean in Stalin's USSR?

Joining many small peasant farms into large farms run by the state or by a collective.

To feed the growing cities and workers, and to sell grain abroad to buy machines for industry.

To make farming socialist by ending private farms and putting land under state or collective control.

To 'liquidate the kulaks as a class' by removing their wealth and power in the countryside.

Kolkhoz (collective farm run by members) and sovkhoz (state farm run by the government).

Their land, animals, and tools; they worked together and shared what was left after meeting state targets.

State centres that hired out tractors and drivers to collectives and checked they met state orders.

Skilled city workers sent to villages to help set up collectives and enforce Party policy.

It set procurement quotas and low prices; farms had to deliver this grain to the state first.

A campaign to remove richer peasants, taking their property and expelling them from villages.

Propaganda and meetings, promises of tractors, and pressure from Party officials, police, and the army.