The overwhelming power of the Soviet and Chinese governments, and their resolve to slaughter anyone who resisted. Even so, Soviet Russia killed off 20 million, and China killed 50 million of their citizens to achieve their blind communist objectives.
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Stalin forced peasant farmers to work on "collectives." These were large farms in which many peasants had no individual ownership interest but were forced to work together to raise crops for the state rather than for themselves. Some peasants who were a little more well off than other peasants were called kulaks. Stalin sent as many kulaks as he could to concentration and work camps.
No, there was no advantage to being a peasant. The feudal system was designed to benefit the upper classes, not the lower. People did not choose to be peasants, they were forced into that role.
Europeans in the Middle Ages who were forced to work the land of a lord were called medieval peasants. They were usually forced to work on farms after they swore an oath to their lord.
beatingsprisonexecutionsiberian gulagconfiscation of seed grain (so that they had nothing to plant next year)forced starvationetc.
Joseph Stalin developed a policy that forced the peasants to put their land and animals into state owned collective.
Peasants
Josef Stalin - 20 million Russians died in the collectivisation. And 50 million Chinese died in a similar move by Mao Ze Dong in China. Dwarfs the Holocaust few million, doesn't it?
the farmers they were forcedthe peasants were forced too
Yes, but the main people who built it were prisoners. They were forced to work and the peasants and warriors helped them.
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Stalin forced peasant farmers to work on "collectives." These were large farms in which many peasants had no individual ownership interest but were forced to work together to raise crops for the state rather than for themselves. Some peasants who were a little more well off than other peasants were called kulaks. Stalin sent as many kulaks as he could to concentration and work camps.
You are probably thinking of a serf. Serfs were basically like slaves; they were tied to the land and forced to work. They were like peasants but they did not have freedom, peasants had freedom.
No, there was no advantage to being a peasant. The feudal system was designed to benefit the upper classes, not the lower. People did not choose to be peasants, they were forced into that role.
The East India Company adopted coercive methods to expand the area under indigo cultivation. They would prevent peasants from planting food crops and, instead, forced them to grow indigo. They also forced peasants to take loans at high interest rates, thereby pushing the peasants into a debt trap. Once the peasants got so entrapped, they had to continue to grow indigo in order to keep repaying the debt.
Europeans in the Middle Ages who were forced to work the land of a lord were called medieval peasants. They were usually forced to work on farms after they swore an oath to their lord.
the male peasants had to do more work than the female because the had to do other work