ABSTRACT
Humanitarian Party activists and even everyday workers became convinced that the kulaks were wholly responsible for the resistance to collectivization and its associated violence. The Peasant war aims were to socialize the countryside by consolidating formerly independent farms, their livestock and land, into huge farm factories run by the party, with each farmer an employee earning a daily wage for his work. That is, total collectivization of the peasantry, including nomads. The collectivization campaign was supplemented, complemented, and pursued through a campaign to eliminate the kulaks as a class. The party decreed the liquidation of all kulaks and their families, even extended relatives. In particular, the 1928 campaign to eradicate religion by force reached high gear in 1930. In addition to the Marxist gut opposition to all religion, the party condemned religion as an obstacle to collectivization. From 1929 to 1935, in implementation of the party's collectivization and dekulakization campaigns, as many as 10,000,000 peasants may have perished.
