HIST 1115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Nikolai Bukharin, Stakhanovite Movement, Grigory Zinoviev
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Stalin believed that larger farms are more useful for the country than smaller family farms that each peasant owned. Bukharin was stalin s enemy who represents and fights for the peasants but was destroyed by stalin. The party of stalin was very active on forcing peasants to give up their lands and produced. Most of the bolsheviks were city people and were afraid of the peasants because they have the power to starve the country. Stalin treated the peasants as his enemies and wanted to be in power of the peasants. Stalin treated ukraine as his enemy because he hated ukraine. Stalin believed that nationality"s problem was the peasants and he made it his goal to destroy the peasant class. Stalin had sealed ukraine, meaning people cannot get out and. People in ukraine was starving and stalin was selling their grains in international market.