WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Soviet terminology divided the Russian peasants into three broad categories: Bednyak, or poor peasants. Serednyak, or mid-income peasants. Kulak, the higher-income farmers who had larger farms.

Detailed explanation-2: -(1) It is the Russian term for wealthy peasants who Stalin believed were hoarding grains to gain more profit. By 1927-28 the towns of Soviet Russia were facing an acute problem of grain supplies. Kulaks were thought to be partly responsible for this.

Detailed explanation-3: -”’KULAKS”’ The kulaks were a category of affluent peasants in the later Russian Empire, Soviet Russia and the early Soviet Union. The word kulak originally referred to independent farmers in the Russian Empire. ‘”KOLKHOZ”’ The Kolkhoz were collective farm in the former Soviet Union.

Detailed explanation-4: -The term peasant usually refers to people who lived and worked in rural areas, but, in Russia, it also described a legal category-soslovie-which even appeared on an individual’s passport. Russian peasants could live in urban areas, make their living as workers or traders, and serve in the military.