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Collective Farms

During his totalitarian regime, Joseph Stalin asserted his authority by completely ridding the USSR of capitalism. The small farms that individual peasants and farmers owned were compiled together in what was called a "collective farm" where hundreds of farmers would live and work on the land, but in the end would turn over the entire harvest to the government. Many of the kulaks who liked the socialistic government revolted against this new reform be slaughtering livestock and burning fields. This unfortunately lead to wide spread famine, and Stalin re-enforced his authority using terror (The Great Purge) until the riots and revolts of the kulaks were silenced.