Dekulakization (Russian: раскулачивание, romanized: raskulachivaniye; Ukrainian: розкуркулення, romanized: rozkurkulennya) [3] was the Soviet campaign of political repressions, including arrests, deportations, or executions of millions of supposed kulaks (wealthy peasants) and their families.

This series of posters taken from the Swathmore college collection captures 5 different pieces of propaganda demonizing the oft-toted enemy of rural Russians prosperity, the dreaded Kulaks. The Kulaks were the wealthier farmers who owned more land or livestock and thus had the most to lose from the process of collectivization.

During the first eight months of the campaign 284,000 persons were arrested as “1st category kulaks”, i.e., five times the original estimate. This was due, in part, to wide opposition to collectivization, not only by farmers but by non-farmers as well. Only 44% of those arrested were peasant farmers.

soviet union propaganda. Agitation of the Bolsheviks against the 'White.' A bourgeois, a priest, and a kulak pull Admiral Kolchak's chariot that has the inscription: 'Land and factories for the landowners and capitalists.

Soviet propaganda continuously heaped abuse on the ‘kulaks,’ blaming them for every economic difficulty and accusing them of criminal designs. Yet, there were no objective criteria for identifying who was a ‘kulak.’

2011年9月23日 · In fact, Stalin merely repeated Lenin’s famous diatribes against the “kulaks”: since 1918, “kulaks”, an artificially constructed group, had been subjected to stereotyping and deshumanisation; they had been designated, in the press and propaganda, as “cockroaches”, “blood-suckers”, “vampires”, or just plain “scum ...

The kulak here is not classed with the well-off peasant of the NEP period, and the latter is not identified with the village capitalist. These views of Communist leaders link up with notions spread by certain observers outside the party. Bazarov, for example, identified the kulak with 'the capital usurer' who precedes capitalist accumulation,

One category of class enemy was the “kulaks” (tight-fists), who were relatively more prosperous farmers with larger farms, or who owned livestock, hired workers, or sold excess agricultural production in the market. The anti-kulak propaganda posters above are from around 1930 when the elimination of kulaks had begun in Russia.

He notes that Trotsky accepted Stalinist propaganda about a “kulak strike” in 1928 and that frequently authorities “applied the label of ‘kulak’ or ‘ideological kulak’ to middle or even poor peasants who resisted collectivization.”

2019年12月15日 · Propaganda, a tool that turned Soviet peasantry against kulaks during the 1930s. (Twitter) On this day in 1929, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin ordered the annihilation of the kulaks - a class of prosperous peasants in Eastern Europe - as a …