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‘Collectivisation in the USSR, in the years 1929 to 1941, was a success.’…

- - - - Bukharin and Rykov (Right) increasingly lost power in the USSR after opposing collectivisation
      - Due to dekulakisation Stalin was able to get rid of classes in the countryside moving him move closer to his own form of socialism
      - Anyone who did not cooperate or were classed as a kulak were shot as ‘enemies of the state
    - - In this period all hints of capitalism was destroyed except private plots of land where peasants could grow their on food to sell for a profit
      - Class system in the countryside were abolished
    - - In December 1929 Stalin publicly announced he would "annihilate the kulaks as a class"
    - - Kolkhoz and Sovkhoz were in direct control of the state
      - He used officials to ensure quotas were being collected but they also acted as spies who reported opposition to his regime (not had this level of control over the countryside since 1917)
  - - - In 1927 Collectivisation was introduced as a voluntary scheme, however, in 1929 only around 5% of households were collectivised and Stalin had to send the army to enforce the regime
- - - - In 1935 so within the period but still took an extremely long time
  - - - In 1938 the USSR had 196,000 lorries whereas the USA had over a million
    - - In 1953 so after the period
- - - - Peasants as if they were seen as too successful they would be deported or killed
        
        Between 1929-1933 peasants slaughtered 25-30% of their cattle, so not to be seen as too successful and therefore punished
      - Peasants were often overlooked to
    - - Worst in Russian history caused by a lack of skilled workers and a harsh winter
    - - If their quotas were high enough they did not receive the profits they were promised
    - - 19 million, causing a lack of skilled workers in the countryside, and reduced the living conditions of people in cities