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Failure of Collectivisation

Failure of Collectivisation. Raymond Chan (4) Chik Cheng Yao (5) Cho Ming En (6) James Ang (11) 3I3. Dekulakisation. Dekulakisation was carried out as part of collectivisation Over 1 million Kulak families affected. Life.

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Failure of Collectivisation

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  1. Failure of Collectivisation Raymond Chan (4) Chik Cheng Yao (5) Cho Ming En (6) James Ang (11) 3I3

  2. Dekulakisation • Dekulakisation was carried out as part of collectivisation • Over 1 million Kulak families affected

  3. Life • Most farmers became worse of than their fathers or grandfathers who were serfs

  4. Grain • From 1931-1934, bad weather caused poor harvests • Collectivised farms had to hand great amounts of grain to government • Due to growing urban population • Production only increased in 1930 • 1934 < 1928 • Kulaks burnt crops

  5. Graph for Grain

  6. Graph interpretation • The graph tells us that collectivisation caused a decrease in actual grain harvest in the short term but successfully increased harvest in the long term. • There was an overall increase in grain taken by state and grain exported, meeting an aim of collectivisation, despite the overall decrease in overall grain harvest. • Hence, the famine of 1932-1933 can be said to have been caused by the government, which did not look after the citizens’ needs.

  7. Deaths • From 1932-1934, there was a famine especially in Ukraine • 1.75 million tons of grain exported during 1932-3 while 5 million peasants starved to death • Many also died as they refused to join collective farms • Around 10 million kulaks were executed • Due to the deaths, some collectivised farms collapsed.

  8. Livestock • Dramatic falls in number of livestock • Peasants chose to kill animals rather than hand them over to collective farms • There was not enough to feed the animals • Horses were important in agriculture • 1953 before livestock recovered to 1928 numbers

  9. Graph for Livestock

  10. Graph interpretation • The graphs for all three types are similar in shape. • It tells us that livestock numbers decreased drastically from 1928-1933 and increased (still being lower than 1928 numbers) from 1933-1935 • An event probably occurred in 1933 causing this.

  11. References • Lowe, Norman. Mastering Modern World History . (Palgrave, 1997). Chapter 16, pg 325 • Oxley, Peter. Russia 1855-1991: From Tsars to Commissars. Chapter 9

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