WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Under collectivization the peasantry were forced to give up their individual farms and join large collective farms (kolkhozy). The process was ultimately undertaken in conjunction with the campaign to industrialize the Soviet Union rapidly.

Detailed explanation-2: -Collectivization-The policy of transferring the own-ership of private farmland to the state. The Soviet state in the 1930s seized land and set up collective farms where workers would produce grain for the state to distribute. The policy proved disastrous for grain pro-duction levels.

Detailed explanation-3: -This collective farm system would supply the county with basic food needs as well as provide a much needed export for financial gain. This new collectivization of agriculture also aimed to rid the country of the peasant class, which accounted for eighty percent of the Soviet Union’s population.

Detailed explanation-4: -Peasant resistance to collectivization took many forms: wanton slaughter of livestock, women’s riots ( bab’i bunty ), theft and destruction of collective farm property, and, perhaps most widely spread, an intentionally slow pace in carrying out directives of the kolkhoz administration.