What was the Liquidation of the Kulaks?

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Answer 1

The kulaks, in Russia, were the richer peasants (farmers) who owned their own land and worked it themselves with probably some paid helpers. So, in rural farm terms, they were the local rich peasants. Since they were the rural class most likely to resist communism and collective farms, and likely to spearhead resistance, they were mostly killed by Stalin starting about 1930

Answer 2

Liquidation Of The Kulaks

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What was the Liquidation of the Kulaks?
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Answer 4

Chronic shortfalls in state procurements of grain and a rising tide of working-class protests over shortages combined to persuade Stalin and his supporters within the party leadership to abandon the market as the main mechanism by which goods from the countryside were obtained. Having supervised the application of "extraordinary" (read, coercive) measures in the Urals and western Siberia during the winter of 1927-1928, Stalin hit on the idea of organizing collective and state farms as a potentially more effective and longer-term solution to the problem of extracting grain. Stalin's enthusiasm for collectivization seems to have been based on two cardinal principles that many in the party and at least some agrarian experts shared. One was that large units of production, organized along the lines of industrial enterprises and with access to mechanized equipment, were far more efficient and would permit the extraction of greater surpluses than the traditional strip farming practiced by Russian peasants. The other was that kulaks represented a counterweight to Soviet power in the villages and by their very nature constituted a "class-alien" element that had to be eliminated. It followed from this that so-called middle peasants who, again by their very nature, wavered between supporting state initiatives and opposing them, could be won over to collective farming by a combination of inducements (access to mechanized equipment, credits, etc.) and coercive measures (taxes, confiscations, threats of exile). Thus, collectivization was to proceed in tandem with "dekulakization."

Answer 5

Kulaks were upper class peasants. They owned land. Stalin didn't like it. They needed food and there was not enough to go around. So Stalin decided to give collectivization a try. All the Kulaks who owned land had it taken away and had them farm them collectively. They no longer owned the land but had to grow food for the starving masses.

Answer 6

I have no idea who the Kulaks were, are they anything like Daleks? But liquidation usually means termination, except in cooking, maybe.

Answer 7

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