Articles related to "Kulaks"

The word 'kulak' was an almost meaningless term for peasants who were chosen arbitrarily for deportation to Russia's labor settlements.

Having basic knowledge about Russian peasant life is important to understanding how this class of people fit into, and influenced, Russian History.

This book about Soviet 'dekulakization' practices and the fate of the peasant forced labor settlements is an important look into Russian history.

The course of Russian history was heavily dependent upon peasants, whose lives were lived and lost in accordance with the whim of authority.

Examination of the Russian "Go to the People" movement, a student exodus to the peasant countryside with the goal of encouraging a revolution.

Stalin's Purges, along with the Great Purge, represented inescapable state-sponsored terror.

Withdrawing from World War I after the October Revolution, Lenin and the Bolsheviks faced external intervention and civil war, necessitating stringent internal controls.

Apart from the rural "petty bourgeoisie," poor peasants constituted the greatest mass to be brought under the control of Lenin's new socialist order.

The 20th century has seen the rise and fall of some of the most evil dictators in history. They gained power shrewdly and maintained it through cruelty and violence.