The first wave of collectivization

Stalin decided to take up the gauntlet, to bring the socialist revolution to the countryside and to engage in the final struggle against the last capitalist class in the Soviet Union, the kulaks, the agrarian bourgeoisie.

• The kulak
• The kolkhozy surpass the kulaks
• A fiery mass movement
• The war against the kulak
• The essential rôle of the most oppressed masses