| The killing of the kulaks was the practical application of Marxist epistemology. |
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| Fearing they would be labeled kulaks, people also fled their homes and villages. |
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| The Soviets dealt with their kulaks before establishing hegemony over Eastern Europe. |
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| Many in the party were now convinced that kulaks were holding the country to ransom. |
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| In the depth of winter a big group of kulaks with their families were being taken on carts 300 kilometres into the backwoods of the region. |
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| I remember the despair of educated land owners who had become dispossessed kulaks. |
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| The UO advocated the planned construction of heavy industry, to be financed by increased taxation of the kulaks. |
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| In the year 1929-30, over 3 000 peasant households were declared to be kulaks, their wealth was confiscated and the owners were deported. |
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| Not quite kulaks for Stalin, maybe, but not exactly all that different either. |
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| But since Stalin's crackdown on the kulaks demonstratively prevented the restoration of capitalism in 1928, their real focus is Bukharin and his supporters who opposed the Stalinist bureaucracy from the right. |
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| But the NEP could only be a temporary retreat-it had its own dangers, as became clear when the emboldened kulaks, the wealthier peasants, rebelled a few years later. |
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| These were only the initial stages of Stalin's war against the kulaks, however. |
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| As he presents the case, the kulaks simply destroyed all the grain and hence starved themselves. |
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| Then they targeted civilians, whether clerks or kulaks, and semi-civilians like constables. |
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| Here, there was of them one who had been able to take the control of the kolkhoz... By agreement with the former kulaks, he threatened people who did not enter the kolkhoz with enthusiasm. |
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| He saw no other course but to lash out with an unplanned, ill-conceived and brutal policy of forced collectivization to break the hold of the kulaks and a forced-march industrialization. |
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| As the kulaks systematically hoarded grain to drive up prices in 1928, threatening to starve the cities, the bureaucracy was forced, in a deformed way, to implement part of the LO's program. |
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| The NEPmen and kulaks were demanding that they be allowed to sell their produce on the world market and to import industrial and consumer products. |
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| When the conciliation of the kulaks proved every bit the disaster predicted by the Opposition, Stalin moved to purge his former Bukharinite bloc partners and implement part of the Opposition's economic program. |
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| By 1928, the kulaks were organizing grain strikes, threatening not only to starve the cities but to undermine the economic foundations of the workers state itself. |
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| During the Soviets' 1930s collectivisation campaign, many Cossacks were killed or died of starvation, as did the kulaks. |
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| Only burned decadent kulaks and enemies of people. |
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| The policy of liquidation of kulaks as a class was formulated by Stalin at the end of 1929 and led to hundreds of thousands of farmers and their families being executed or deported to special settlements. |
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| Stalin murdered seven million kulaks in a bid to wipe out the rich peasantry of rural Russia and collectivise agriculture in a brutal Leninist blueprint. |
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| Kulaks and enemies of the people became non-people who could be liquidated without remorse. |
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