Collectivization of Agriculture

1. Why was collectivization necessary?
Collectivization was necessary because before collectivization the USSR was the bourgeois system and it will be changed to socialisim. The USSR needs a agricultural transfer so that it can be a collective ownership. Stalin wants the peasants to create food to please the workers so that they work and create industries so that the USSR will become industrailized

2. What is a kolkhoz?
The Kolkhoz were the collective farms that 50 - 100 families would live in. It pooled livestock, tools and land but the families had one acre to theirselves for their own use.

3. Who is a kulak?
The Kulaks are the better off peasants, middle peasants, poor peasants and landless laborers

4. How were the kulaks dealt with by the government?
The Kulak were dealt with by the government by other peasants having to live with them and they would have to share. The government expected more from them because they had more supplies then other peasants.

5. How did the peasants resist collectivization? What happened as a result?
The peasants resisted collectivization by killing their animals instead of giving them over to the government. As a result they were killed.

Examine the collective farm as illustrated in the reading, "A plan of a collective farm." Answer the following question:

6. What is a MTS Station?
a MTS station is a machine and tractor station that was established to support collective farms, they maintained and hired out machinery.

7. What were the dual purposes of the MTS Stations?
The MTS stations dual purposes were also used to control the countryside. Each MTS had a political department. Its job was to root out anti societ elements and troublemakers, and establish party cells in local areas. It was also there to ensure that every kolkhoz handed over its quota of grain.

8. How did a kolkhoz work and what was its relationship with the nearby town and its MTS?
Workers on the kolkhoz received no wages. THey were credited with 'workdays' in exchange for their labor on the collective fields. At the end of the year, the profits of the farm would be divided up according to the worke=days each peasant had put in. Also kolkohoz had to hand in their quota.