HIS2117 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ration Stamp, Planned Economy, Sweatshop
1 Feb 2017
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Individual landlords replaced by collective master: the state. Forced collectivisation completed at stupendous human and env cost: immediate benefits to regime by providing adequat food for expanding city population during industiralization. Long-term disastrous effects: soviet agriculture crippled beyond repair. More industrius, willing to buy capital, invest in land. Tended to own more land, have some hired labour, maybe like a horse or something. Doing a little better in terms of ses than some neighbours, but still poor. Process of purging kulaks from countryside to other areas. Stalin wanted to entirely eliminate kulaks as class because. Stalin believed some of the kulaks would join up with domestic or foreign counter- revolutionaries. Their very existance and presence might prevent realization of collectivising goals. They"re kinda capitalists. not really, but stalin made them so. Anyone who seemed not to be pulling their weight or against collectivisation was called a kulak, whether or not they were.
