Collectivization of agriculture in the USSR was a transformation of small, one-person peasant farms into large public socialist farms through cooperization. There were two types of collective farms - kolkhozes and sovkhozes. In theory, a kolkhoz was a collective farm managed by the members of the cooperative and getting paid according to the earnings of the kolkhoz, while a sovkhoz was a collective farm managed by the state, with its workers treated as salaried state employees with guaranteed earnings. In reality, both types of farms were strictly controlled by the Soviet government. Stalin's collectivization became one of the symbols and phenomena of the Soviet era, the tragedy of the Soviet village. In people's memory, it is associated primarily with the dekulakization of hard-working peasants, exile and mass starvation of 1932-1933. Let us examine why the USSR needed to unite peasant farms, how it was done, and whether the desired result was achieved.

00:00 - Kolkhoz as the USSR in miniature
03:35 - Why the Soviet Union needed to unify agriculture
09:08 - Forced collectivization
11:24 - Dekulakization
14:50 - After the famines

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