dekulakization
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Dekulakization (; ) was a campaign of repression in the Soviet Union directed against so-called kulaks, a loosely defined category of supposedly wealthy or exploitative peasants. The campaign involved mass arrests, executions, expropriation of property, and deportations of entire households to remote and inhospitable regions.
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- Dekulakization
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- the collectivization in the Soviet Union
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- A parade under the banners "We will liquidate the kulaks as a class" and "All to the struggle against the wreckers of agriculture"
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- Soviet Union
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- 1929–1933
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- Mass murder, deportation, starvation
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- 530,000–600,000 to 3,500,000
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- Secret police of the Soviet Union
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- Away With Private Peasants! (3273571261).jpg
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- start time
- 1929-00-00
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- 1932-00-00
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18 sectionsContents
- Background
- The Bolsheviks and the Peasantry
- Industrialization and collectivization
- Grain procurement crisis
- Dekulakization in 1930s
- Categorization of Kulaks
- Children during dekulakization
- Women during dekulakization
- The OGPU during dekulakization
- Classicide
- Effects of dekulakization on the Soviet Union
- Liquidation
- Effects of liquidation in the Soviet Union
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
- Further reading
Dekulakization (; ) was a campaign of repression in the Soviet Union directed against so-called kulaks, a loosely defined category of supposedly wealthy or exploitative peasants. The campaign involved mass arrests, executions, expropriation of property, and deportations of entire households to remote and inhospitable regions.
The campaign began following Joseph Stalin's announcement of the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class" on December 27, 1929. It had two objectives: to eliminate potential resistance to the collectivization of agriculture, and to provide forced labor for the colonization and economic exploitation of Siberia, the Urals, Kazakhstan, and the Soviet North. Between 2.1 and 2.3 million people were deported to special settlements in remote regions between 1930 and 1933. Between 20,000 and 30,000 were executed by extrajudicial commissions (troiki). Historian Manfred Hildermeier estimates the death toll of dekulakization, excluding the subsequent famine, at between 530,000 and 600,000, including deaths in transit and in special settlements through 1953.