Joseph Stalin Part 2: The Secretary Becomes Dictator
Real Dictators
Stalin's Plan for Collectivized Farming
Any peasant with over eight acres of land is known as a kulak. Stalin wants to introduce collectivized farming, that means everything is to be held in common. He doesn't want the kulaks profiting off the land. All grain and all profit will now belong to the state. The kulaks are divided into three groups: those to be shot or imprisoned, those to have their property confiscated and the exile to Siberia.
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