Collectivisation under Stalin

• Ultimate aim is to control peasantryand kulak threat and grain exports weaponising ideology
• led to Ukrainian famine which killed millions
• Great Depression led to profit drop from grain
• first two months nearly Half of Soviet peasantry is forced onto farms

  • 60 million
• 25 million households into 250k kholkoz
• after first round he called 25 thousands over zealous and calls for halt
• 1934 :

  • 70% in collective farms and two years later 90%