The Soviet government decided to eliminate kulaks because of their strong resistance to what?

Answer 1

The kulaks were traditionally well-off peasant- landowners and belonged to the middle class employing labour themselves. When Stalin started collectivisation, peasants were forced to hand over their land, and work co-operatively. They were forced to give most of their produce to the state. Kulaks were considered as the main enemies of Communism in which private property was not allowed and everything was held in in the hands of the state asa common property. Kulaks refused to join collectives and Stalin sent soldiers to capture, totrure, beat them or to send them into gulags. Thousands were killed. Stalin made them a scapegoat, and claimed that they caused the femine in the country.

Answer 2

I'm not a specialist in this topic. However, I understand that the kulaks were the individuals who benefited from Lenin's New Economic Policy, during the mid-1920s. They were able to create farms with multiple machinery and animals (yes, I know...sinful...), and were regarded as better-off than the majority of the Russian peasantry (numbering about 82% at the time and suffering poverty and famine on a regular basis).

Stalin regarded this population as contrary to the communist ideal of egalitarianism and economic commonality. He therefore ordered their liquidation, so as to appease those of the peasantry who were jealous, display his unadulterated devotion towards communism, and implement his first Five Years Plan, which represented virtually complete state control over the Russian economy.

Answer 3

collective farming

Answer 4

their resistance to collective farming

Answer 5

They were collective farming