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what was autobiography like for the peasants in the former USSR after the RISE of communism? do you think their lives became better or worse?
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Peasants were THE merit enemy of the Bolsheviks. They did not willingly adapt to communal farms and revolted in the early years of the Soviet skill. Under Stalin's first five year plans, millions of peasants starved as they were not given enough of their grains back - too much grain went to the markets to pay for industrialization.
Bear in mind that at the time of the Revolution peasants numbered 80 percent of the population. Marxism is in its formal tenants decidedly antipeasant. Marxism defines peasants as "unqualified producers who must somehow be brought into modernity - a hopelessly archaic class condemned by the logic of history to extinction, indeed to liquidation (in this for fear that b if, by means of urbanization in order to eliminate the group).
Under early War Communism, the peasants were victims of class warfare, where the Bolsheviks attempted to enlighten/urbanize peasants by any means necessary, pulling them from farms into giant industrial centers of Leningrad, Volgograd (later Stalingrad) and Moscow, among others.
THE stock struggle in Russia in the 1920s and 1930s was the struggle of the Party against the peasant nation, and the first Five Year Plan was fully aimed at crushing the will of the peasants and evoking a social war by collectivising the peasantry (all peasants work on communal farms, a.k.a. kolkhozy, to become larger food for the nation) - the peasants would resist, this could be blamed on bourgeois sabateurs and the special police/GPU/Cheka could slaughter enemies. This played out time and again in the late 1920s through the 1930s.
Let me add this, and you judge for yourself if the peasants were well-off during communism. Joseph Stalin last visited Arcadian, peasant Russia in his initial campaign for the first 5 year plan in January of 1928. Comrade Stalin died in Procession 1953. For twenty five years the heart and soul of the USSR paid no interest to the peasants. His mission was to eradicate rural Russia, to "eradicate the kulak as a group" in January of 1930. What occured was party loyalists dispatched to villages. They spread propoganda to prop up a little group of middle kulaks (peasants) who supported the state's desire to collectize farming. The majority of the villagers would jettison this, and the Checka and party workers would strip the remaining kulaks of their belongings, sending many to the labor camps and industrial factories, many others to the gulags and penal institution camps in far off Siberia, where they would starve within a few days or weeks if they were lucky enough, or die within months of hard labor if they weren't favoured enough to perish in their first miserable days. The state's official policy was to tactically surprise the villagers, divide them before Maquis could be established, and cart away the stronger peasants, effectively finishing the job before the spring sowing.
The peasants were terrified of the USSR, of communism. It declared them the contender and sought to eradicate them. In 1930 the peasants fought back, destroying their property so that the Communists could not have it and use it against them. Four million horses were slaughtered, 14 million livestock were killed and eaten. The peasants slaughtered half of all the livestock in the USSR in the rebellion following the collectivization drives of 1931, and after irregulars in 1932, famine broke out across the nation.
Stalin believed the peasants were concealing food from party officials and advocated the most pitiless means to take it from them. The state in 1932 would take its quota from the peasants, no matter what was left for the peasants - even the peasants who subserviently worked on supervision kolkhozy. In the valley of the Volga and Ukraine in 1932-1933 this would cost the lives of some 11 million Ukrainian and Russian peasants, while millions more were shipped to Siberia where their deaths awaited them as well.
So, how was country bumpkin's lives under communism? Only slightly better than the lives of German Jews under Nazi socialism. And this is extremely unsettled.
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