Originally, it was used to describe poor farmers in Russia who had worked their way to affluence. During the Soviet era, it was applied to farmers who resisted handing over their harvests to the detachments which came from Moscow to redistribute it.
Stalin solved the problem with the Kulaks by invading the country and establishing a connection with the groups' leader, and from that point he was able to have a direct say in whatever activities the Kulaks did.
Stalin responded very violently. He executed many Kulaks and soon began mass deportations that carried out through-out the years. Many of the Kulaks died from the results of being deported.
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The Russian Kulaks were mostly peasant class farm owners. They faced a regime under Lenin & Stalin that at first were radical Bolshevik communists. They saw the Kulaks as a problem because they supported the overthrow of the Bolshevik regime. Later, they refused to sell their crops at the price set by Lenin and his regime. The Kulaks were against abolishing private property. To avert an economic crisis, Lenin began the NEP, or New Economic Policy. For a short time this gave some ground to the Kulaks, but not for long. The NEP was abolished and the collectivization of the Soviet farm system began. Kulaks that resisted were killed. Later with Stalin in sole power of the USSR, he created a program to wipe out the peasant farmer class completely. He hated the Kulaks so much many millions of them were executed.
The Kulaks numbered around 8 million and were mostly farmers. These people were fiercely independent and despised the Communists and especially Joseph Stalin! Stalin was wanting to undergo a massive collectivazation program especially in the Ukraine and western Russia-the breadbasket of Russia. The Kulaks didn't want to give up their ancestral home and resisted. Stalin ordered them removed and a majority of these innocent people were murdered and others sent to Siberian gulags! The Kulaks would be the first of many to experience first hand, the wrath of Stalin.
Stalin solved the problem with the Kulaks by invading the country and establishing a connection with the groups' leader, and from that point he was able to have a direct say in whatever activities the Kulaks did.
They were called the "kulaks"
Stalin responded very violently. He executed many Kulaks and soon began mass deportations that carried out through-out the years. Many of the Kulaks died from the results of being deported.
Stalin considered the Kulaks to be wealthy peasantsThey were formerly wealthy farmers that had owned 24 or more acres, or had employed farm workers. Stalin believed any future insurrection would be led by the Kulaks, thus he proclaimed a policy aimed at "liquidating the Kulaks as a class."
Joseph Stalin initiated the collectivization of agriculture in the Soviet Union during the late 1920s and early 1930s. This policy aimed to consolidate individual farms into collective farms in order to increase agricultural productivity and bring control under the state.
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Stalin was a very cruel man and he singled out the kulaks. He put them in camps were the were starved, the food was taken away from them and many people died. The women were beat and raped, if the risisted the were murdered.
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