Collectivisation

Question 1

What new farms did collectivisation create?

Answer 1

• Kolkhoz = shared profits

- Sovkhoz = paid wages

Question 2

Why did these farms require fewer people and what did this cause?

Answer 2

Were more efficient:

- many peasants emigrated to towns and cities

Question 3

How many households by 1936 were part of collective farms?

Answer 3

90% = changed compared to Stolypin

Question 4

What was Bolsehvikisation?

Answer 4

Similar to Russification

= both used Russian language - means to ultimate control

Question 5

How did Collectivisation include the modernisation of agriculture?

Answer 5

• MTS stations for tractors
• Foreign investment for advanced machinery
  BUT Kulaks removed

Question 6

What was the MTS used for?

Answer 6

Control of the peasants

Question 7

What were the results of the 1932-33 famine?

Answer 7

• 5-10m dead

- Huge loss of livestock

Question 8

What was the 5 Stalks Law?

Answer 8

Any peasants caught hoarding more than 5 stalks of grain were deemed ‘counter revolutionaries’

Question 9

How did collectivisation create change?

Answer 9

• New system of farming
• Use of technology BUT used inefficiently
• Shift in population + no Kulaks
• No rural uprisings
• Positive for poor peasants = private allotments