10 Quick Questions on Collectivisation

Why was the famine of 1932-1933 called a 'man-made' famine?

• A lot of men died

• There was grain being produced but it was being sold for export instead of being used to feed the peasants.

What was a Kolkohz?

• An area of Ukraine

• A factory

• A type of Collective Farm

Which group of peasants were wiped out by the policy of Collectivisation?

What were the MTS?

• Motor Tractor Stations

• Machine Tractor Stations

• Multiple Tractor Stations

From the list below, choose an ECONOMIC reason why Stalin introduced the policy of Collectivisation

• To keep control of the peasants

• To spread Communism to the countryside

• To modernise farming and free up some peasants who could move to the cities

Choose a political reason why Stalin introduced the policy of Collectivisation.

• It would eliminate the Kulaks

• It replaced NEP

• It would help increase the control over the peasants

• All of the above.

What was a long term consequence of Collectivisation? Choose 2

• Stalin had achieved his aim and by 1939 99% of land was Collectivised

• Between 4-7 million peasants died in Ukraine

How did the Kulaks show opposition to the policy of Collectivisation?

• Slaughtered their own animals and destroyed their crops

• Killed their neighbours

• Killed the communist farm managers

What was a short-term consequence of the policy of Collectivisation?

What happened to those who opposed Collectivisation?

• They were branded as Kulaks

• They were sent to the Gulags in Siberia

• They were killed

• All of the above