By: Panos Theodoropoulos and Nikitas Georgakopoulos

It was started by Stalin and lasted from the year 1928 to the year 1940 Its Goals: Extinguish the classes of urban society Secure food for the urban Population Produce enough to export

After Lenin’s death farms were confiscated Farmers were not prepared to support a Communist system Received no pay for their work As a result-> burned their crops and animals Stalin took an authoritarian approach to this problem

Economically Politically Socially

Peasants slaughtered animals creating greater food shortages than before Trade unions were converted into mechanisms for mass production Mass deportations of any opposition Reduced output

By % of peasants food stockings were collectivized By 1939, the sown area of Russia was 1/3 larger than that in 1913 Output of grain doubled from 1914 Low income for farmers Government could sell their produce for great income Machines were bought with all the surplus money

Article published by the newspaper Pravda in 1930 Talks about how all goals have been met “... some of our comrades have become dizzy with success and for the moment have lost clearness of mind and sobriety of vision” After this article the pressure of collectivization abated Reduced number of collective farms for a very short while

"Small-scale production gives birth to capitalism and the bourgeoisie constantly, daily, hourly, with elemental force, and in vast proportions."- Lenin

Stalin began to stray from Marxism Attempt at decreasing the power of Kulaks Bureau of West Siberian Regional Executive Committee Plans on how to find and what to do with kulaks Opposition within the parties

On Forced Collectivization of Livestock

The collectivization campaign in the USSR, 1930s. The slogan reads: "We kolkhoz farmers are liquidating the kulaks as a class, on the basis of complete collectivization. People buying into Stalin’s ideas

Stalin met opposition in an authoritative way Government responded to opposition by cutting off food supplies to areas of protest Reasons- sabotaging of collectivization

This was a famine/genocide Cut off food supplies to Ukraine Created internal passports so no one could enter the Soviet Union Stalin’s reasons Ukrainians were sabotaging the party This sabotage was organized by kulaks Other reasons Stalin wanted to hit Ukrainian nationalism

Child victim of Holodomor

Collectivization- massively opposed by peasants Deportations to Siberia More collectivized farms Still famines and scarcity of food Ex. Famine of ( ) Millions of resisters starved to death or were killed

Picture of USSR military man shooting peasants

Feigin visited farms Reported that people have a lot less livestock and food than they had before Shows the results of the opposition by the peasants and the forcible collection of products by the government

Kulaks were sent to Gulag camps Stalin cut of food supplies to areas that protested

Depiction of Gulag camps found in Kersnovskaya’s notebook - prisoner

Collectivization was (in the long run) successful in aiding the process of USSR’s industrialization However, the amount of human casualties and the disrespect towards basic human rights that was exhibited cannot be excused- Stalin admitted the deaths of 10 million people during the collectivization process The collectivization process is a perfect example of Stalin’s authoritarian approach to government control and how his politics strayed from his declared ideology

Primary Sources: Feigin. "Letter From Feigin." Letter to Sergo [Ordzhonikidze]. 9 Apr Soviet Archives Exhibit. Web. 24 Feb Stalin, Joseph. "Reply to Collective- Farm Comrades." Pravda [Moscow] 3 Apr. 1930: Print. Stalin, Josheph. "Dizzy With Success." Pravda [Moscow] 2 Mar. 1930: Print. USSR. Bureau of the West Siberian Regional Executive Committee. Hrono Web. 24 Feb USSR. Central Committee of All-Union Communist Party. Politburo. On Forced Publication. Print. USSR. Council of People's Commissars Ukrainian Famine. Web. 24 Feb Secondary Sources: "| Heroes & Villains | Stalin & industrialisation | Background." The National Archives. Web. 23 Feb Boyar, Ender. Rep. Web. 24 Feb Luhovy, Artem Y. "The Famine-Genocide in Soviet Ukraine." 2003 Writing Competition. 23 Feb Reading. Rivers, John. "Collectivization and the War on Peasantry in the USSR, " Associated Content. 21 Jan Web. 24 Feb "Totalitarianism in Europe ( )." TheCorner. Web. 23 Feb