These peasants were underestimated, demeaned, and distressed; he kulaks were a class of wealthy, Russian peasants who often had a better education than their neighbor. They began to liquidize as soon as Stalin saw them as a threat to other classes resulting in millions of dead kulaks, famines, and civil war between classes.

Stalin did not appreciate the kulaks and instead decided to use dekulakization and collectivization against them. Anyone from a peasant who doesn’t want to join in a collective farm, or a peasant with a leadership quality was denounced as a kulak; there was no respect for them. As kulaks held a higher class, they were automatically deemed a class enemy. Stalin and the government " "have gone over from a policy of limiting the exploiting tendencies of the Kulak to a policy of eliminating the kulaks as a class" " (Morson 13). It is not understood why Stalin would eliminate such an economic necessity, especially when the country was trying to …show more content…
This new system deprived collective farmers, like the kulaks, of direct ownership of their means of production (Chamberlin 497). Although, the poorer peasants accepted the new order since they never owned any land; the kulaks had an opposing attitude towards the new order.

In the years 1929-34, famines were common for the Kulaks. A decree that authorized bartering of commodities with the countryside, between the city and peasantry, allowed the Kulaks to take leadership of the goods delivered by the state. Kulaks were forced to trade with poorer peasants causing many disputes. The struggle for grain united peasants, poorer than the kulaks, and workers together. Sometime later, a 'Food Army' was created with over 40,000 troops to carry out the journey of taking parts of the produce and supplies from the kulaks in the countryside (Serge & Sedgwick