“In insisting that peasant activity contrary to Communist policies could be defined as kulak while at the same time maintaining that his approach to the peasantry was based on scientific Marxist class analysis, Lenin provided his successors with conceptualizations that would be used in collectivization when Stalin launched a war against all peasants.” SocialismCommunismUssrStalinLeninSovietsCollectvization Book:Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance Source: Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance
“The peasant rebellion against collectivization was the most serious episode in popular resistance experienced by the Soviet state after the Russian Civil War. In 1930, more than two million peasants took part in 13,754 mass disturbances. In 1929 and 1930, the OGPU recorded 22,887 "terrorists acts" aimed at local officials and peasant activists, more than 1,100 murders.” CommunismSoviet UnionStalinCollectivizationN Ussr Book:Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance Source: Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance