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Socialism in Europe and the Russia
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Explain the collectivisation programme of Stalin. 

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Stalin’s collectivisation programme:


(i)Stalin forced all peasants to cultivate in collective farms, kolkhoz. The bulk of land and implements were transferred to the ownership of collective farms. Peasants worked on the land, and the kolkhoz profit was shared.
(ii)Enraged peasants resisted the authorities and destroyed their livestock. Between 1929 and 1931, the number of cattle fell by one-third.
(iii)Those who resisted collectivisation were severely punished. Many were deported and exiled.
(iv)As they resisted collectivisation, peasants argued that they were not rich and they were not against socialism. They merely did not want to work in collective farms for a variety of reasons.
(v)Stalin’s government allowed some independent cultivation, but treated such cultivators unsympathetically.

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