By: Panos Theodoropoulos and Nikitas Georgakopoulos.

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

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 1932- 61.5% 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 1914Low 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

The Smoke of Chimneys is the Breath of Soviet Russia

"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 MarxismAttempt at decreasing the power of KulaksBureau 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/genocideCut off food supplies to UkraineCreated internal passports so no one could

enter the Soviet UnionStalin’s reasons

Ukrainians were sabotaging the partyThis sabotage was organized by kulaks

Other reasonsStalin wanted to hit Ukrainian

nationalism

Child victim of Holodomor

Collectivization- massively opposed by peasants

Deportations to SiberiaMore collectivized farms

Still famines and scarcity of food

Ex. Famine of (1932-1933)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

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Feigin. "Letter From Feigin." Letter to Sergo [Ordzhonikidze]. 9 Apr. 1932. Soviet Archives Exhibit. Web. 24 Feb. 2010. <http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/soviet.exhibit/aa2feig1.html>.

Stalin, Joseph. "Reply to Collective- Farm Comrades." Pravda [Moscow] 3 Apr. 1930: 492-518. Print.

Stalin, Josheph. "Dizzy With Success." Pravda [Moscow] 2 Mar. 1930: 483-91. Print.

USSR. Bureau of the West Siberian Regional Executive Committee. Hrono. 2001. Web. 24 Feb. 2010. <http://www.hrono.info/dokum/193_dok/19310505kolh.html>.

USSR. Central Committee of All-Union Communist Party. Politburo. On Forced Publication. Print.

USSR. Council of People's Commissars. 1932. Ukrainian Famine. Web. 24 Feb. 2010. <http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111famine.html>.

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