dekulakization
Soviet class purge
Dekulakization was the Soviet campaign to eliminate kulaks—peasants deemed wealthy or resistant to collectivization—as a class.
Beginning in 1930 under Stalin, it involved mass deportation, execution, and forced labor.
Millions were displaced or killed.
The term appears in historical discussions of Soviet agricultural policy and Stalinist repression: The village was devastated by dekulakization.
Forced communal ownership transfer
- kulaksLanded Russian peasantry
- StalinismTotalitarian Communist doctrine
- SovietOf the USSR
- dispossessionDeprival of property rights
expropriation · peasantry · USSR · communism · Marxism-Leninism · proletariat · bourgeoisie · ideology
Legal expulsion from country
- exileBanishment from homeland
- SiberiaRussia's eastern expanse
- persecutionSystematic mistreatment of groups
- dispossessionDeprival of property rights
arrest · imprisonment · execution · violence · intimidation · suppression · confiscation · NKVD
Gathering mature crops
- confiscationSeizure by authority
- famineSevere food shortage
- HolodomorEngineered Soviet famine
- peasantLow-status agricultural laborer
livestock · rural · village · smallholder · farmstead
collectivization
Forced communal ownership transfer
dispossession · expropriation · peasantry · USSR · communism · Marxism-Leninism · proletariat · bourgeoisie · ideology · propaganda
deportation
Legal expulsion from country
- exileBanishment from homeland
- SiberiaRussia's eastern expanse
- persecutionSystematic mistreatment of groups
dispossession · arrest · imprisonment · execution · violence · intimidation · suppression · confiscation · NKVD · terror
harvest
Gathering mature crops
- confiscationSeizure by authority
- famineSevere food shortage
- HolodomorEngineered Soviet famine
peasant · livestock · rural · village · smallholder · farmstead
- communismMarx, Marxism, Leninism, Lenin, proletariat
- Soviet communismLenin, Stalin, Leninism, Bolsheviks, Stalinism
- Soviet EraUSSR, Soviet Union, Soviet rule, CCCP, Eastern Bloc
- Soviet UnionKremlin, Lenin, Stalin, KGB, Sputnik
- persecutionHolocaust, pogrom, genocide, pogroms, ethnic cleansing
- Stalin EraJoseph Stalin, Stalin, Stalinism, Stalingrad, Stalin era
dekulakizationprivatization
State sells public assets
land reform · agrarian reform · homesteading · enclosure · restitution
dekulakizationland grants
Government-awarded real estate parcels
homesteading · land distribution · enclosure · asset protection · ownership rights
dekulakizationrehabilitation
Recovery from injury/addiction
restitution · amnesty · repatriation · de-Stalinization · compensation