Offensive against kulaks

• kulaks were up to officials to decide and they essentially rid themselves of enterprising peasants and development as they’d kill catttle and sell machinery
• facade to rid opposition and anyone who disliked collectivisation
• class warfare keeps control
• officials given quotas and made them up

  • counter revolutionaries
  • active opponents
  • minor offenders
• gulags are formed
• 2 million sent so Siberia in first year
• 3 million families move and dekulak which cause s dire conditions
• peasants opposition

  • 1930 - 14,000 outbreaks
  • 3000 officials killed
  • slaughtered own animals
  • women revolt and hide horses and grain - specific and hare to deal with
  • Mir is abolished which leads 20 million to move to towns
• famine

  1932 - 1934 in Ukraine

  • Biggest grain producer
  • State taking double of NEP
  • 5 million die as he doesn’t help or let them move
  • 1933 - 1000 people arrested for hairdressing and stealing grain
• kholkoz model

  • private plots are accepted
  • 1 cow allowed and 4 sheep
  • 52% vegetables and fruit, meat ad milk provider