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[…] StalinStalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician, dictator and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. Read More and the Gulags Understanding Tsarist and Communist Russia, 1855–1964 How did Stalin rise to power? Stalin and […]
[…] How did StalinStalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician, dictator and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. Read More rise to power? The Exile of Leon Trotsky Explaining Lenin’s Policy of War Communism and the New Economic Policy What Were Stalin’s Five Year Plans? Goals, Methods, and Results The Soviet Industrial Revolution: How the Five Year Plans Built a Superpower How to Write an Essay on Stalin’s Five Year Plans Why did Stalin choose collectivisationCollectivisation Full Description:
The policy of forced consolidation of individual peasant households into massive, state-controlled collective farms. It represented a declaration of war by the urban state against the rural peasantry, intended to extract grain to fund industrialization. Collectivisation was a radical restructuring of the countryside that abolished private land ownership. The state seized land, livestock, and tools, forcing independent farmers into kolkhozy. Resistance was met with brutal force, including the “liquidation” of wealthier peasants (Kulaks) as a class.
Critical Perspective:This policy fundamentally altered the relationship between the people and the land. It treated the peasantry not as citizens to be supported, but as an internal colony to be exploited. By establishing a state monopoly on food production, the regime gained the ultimate lever of social control: the power to grant or withhold the means of survival, leading to man-made famines used to crush regional nationalism and resistance.
Read more? Forced Collectivization in the USSR: The Brutal Backbone of the First Five Year Plan Collectivisation and the Soviet Peasantry: A Short Guide Pravda and Stalin’s Terror Everyday life and terror – 1937 Stalin and HG Wells Stalinist Architecture […]
[…] How did StalinStalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician, dictator and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. Read More rise to power? The Exile of Leon Trotsky Explaining Lenin’s Policy of War Communism and the New Economic Policy What Were Stalin’s Five Year Plans? Goals, Methods, and Results The Soviet Industrial Revolution: How the Five Year Plans Built a Superpower How to Write an Essay on Stalin’s Five Year Plans Why did Stalin choose collectivisationCollectivisation Full Description:
The policy of forced consolidation of individual peasant households into massive, state-controlled collective farms. It represented a declaration of war by the urban state against the rural peasantry, intended to extract grain to fund industrialization. Collectivisation was a radical restructuring of the countryside that abolished private land ownership. The state seized land, livestock, and tools, forcing independent farmers into kolkhozy. Resistance was met with brutal force, including the “liquidation” of wealthier peasants (Kulaks) as a class.
Critical Perspective:This policy fundamentally altered the relationship between the people and the land. It treated the peasantry not as citizens to be supported, but as an internal colony to be exploited. By establishing a state monopoly on food production, the regime gained the ultimate lever of social control: the power to grant or withhold the means of survival, leading to man-made famines used to crush regional nationalism and resistance.
Read more? Forced Collectivization in the USSR: The Brutal Backbone of the First Five Year Plan Collectivisation and the Soviet Peasantry: A Short Guide Pravda and Stalin’s Terror Everyday life and terror – 1937 Stalin and the Gulags Stalin and HG Wells Stalinist Architecture […]
[…] How did StalinStalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician, dictator and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. Read More rise to power? The Exile of Leon Trotsky Explaining Lenin’s Policy of War Communism and the New Economic Policy What Were Stalin’s Five Year Plans? Goals, Methods, and Results The Soviet Industrial Revolution: How the Five Year Plans Built a Superpower How to Write an Essay on Stalin’s Five Year Plans Why did Stalin choose collectivisationCollectivisation Full Description:
The policy of forced consolidation of individual peasant households into massive, state-controlled collective farms. It represented a declaration of war by the urban state against the rural peasantry, intended to extract grain to fund industrialization. Collectivisation was a radical restructuring of the countryside that abolished private land ownership. The state seized land, livestock, and tools, forcing independent farmers into kolkhozy. Resistance was met with brutal force, including the “liquidation” of wealthier peasants (Kulaks) as a class.
Critical Perspective:This policy fundamentally altered the relationship between the people and the land. It treated the peasantry not as citizens to be supported, but as an internal colony to be exploited. By establishing a state monopoly on food production, the regime gained the ultimate lever of social control: the power to grant or withhold the means of survival, leading to man-made famines used to crush regional nationalism and resistance.
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