Dekulakization

Dekulakization

What happened to the Kulaks under Stalin's rule?

Stalin's Plan of Action

1929 - Passes an article for Dekulakization (Source 1)

• Kulaks were to be forced into collectivized farms
• Forced into jobs as foresters, miners, etc. (Source 5)
• Resistors were to be killed or deported to Gulags. (Source 6)

Bibliography

Made no efforts to hide his intentions against the kulaks and deems them "Enemies of the People." (Source 5)

Sources:

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/324575/kulak

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/129104/communism/276332/Stalinism

http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/media?id=bt131102&st=kulaks

http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/media?id=bt132102&st=kulaks

http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/stalin.htm

http://econc10.bu.edu/economic_systems/Economics/Command_Econ/Agriculture/dekulakization_and_collectivizat.htm

Dekulakization by Lynne Viola -> weird link. chrome-extension://bpmcpldpdmajfigpchkicefoigmkfalc/views/app.html

http://alphahistory.com/russianrevolution/russian-society/

http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111stalin.html

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/04/was_the_starvation_of_the_kula.html

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/genocide?s=t

http://www.encyclo.co.uk/define/Dekulakization

http://www.masterandmargarita.eu/estore/pdf/eren003_beers.pdf

http://alphahistory.com/russianrevolution/russian-society/

Genocide. Yes or No?

Executing his Plan. Executing his People.

naimark breadtrucks news from stanford.edu by Central State Archives of Photo, Audio, and Video

2008 - Kulaks try to get dekulakization recognized as genocide. Russia claims it isn't a genocide because they weren't targeting a specific race, but the definition of genocide is the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group. Dekulakization was then in turn described as a political repression”. Because of this, I think it is safe to assume that the liquidation of the Kulaks was in fact a genocide.

(Sources 10, 11, or 12)

• 1934 - At least 75% of Kulaks had been arrested or deported from Russia. (Source 1)
• Many Kulaks were shot and or arrested and many more starved or died of malnutrition. (Source 2)
• Even people like priests who had been associated with kulaks were killed or exiled. (Source 3)
• An estimated 10,000,000 Kulaks were exiled and around a third of them died during transportation. (Source 5)
• In a total of 2 years, the Kulak population dropped from 5.4 million to 1.6 million, and around 15% of these people were died either from suicide, torture, or physical abuse in the Gulags. (Source 6)

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(Source 14)

Stalin's Issue

Russian Reaction

Kulaks were Ukrainian, not Russian. This was why Russians didn’t have an issue with the liquidation of the Kulak class.

(Source 10)

• Believed Kulaks were the most likely to revolt against him. (Source 1)
• Totalitarian Dictator - Didn't want to leave any risk of being overthrown. (Source 1)
• Needed the crops from the Kulaks to feed people in big cities. (Source 10)

Economic Policy and the Famine from econc10.bu.edu by unknown

Peasants resisted the dekulakization of their neighbors:

• Surrounded them when cadres came
• Would throw profanity at cadres
• Took infants into their homes on numberous occasions.

(Source 7)