Reasons for Launching Collectivization

Question 1

1. If more people moved to the city, what was needed to feed them?
2. What was required to sell abroad?
   - What was this in order to buy? (2)
3. What would large scale farms theoretically create?

Answer 1

1. More productive farming.
2. Grain surpluses.
   - Modern Western equipment needed for Industrialisation.
3. Economies of scale.

Question 2

1. What did many communists resent the Kulaks for?

2. What did many communists blame the Kulaks for?

Answer 2

1. Growing rich from NEP.

2. Grain Requisitioning Crisis.

Question 3

1. What did Stalin pick up by adopting the United Opposition’s policies after defeating them?
2. Who did this also allow him to keep?
   - What did this help him to do?

Answer 3

1. Their old supporters.
2. Those in the centre.
   - Defeat Bukharin.