How did life change for the kulaks under Stalin?

The student should mention the Great Terror, liquidation of the kulaks, use of the Cheka, creation of the gulags to name a few. POINT - why did life change? Life changed for the kulaks due to Stalin's wish to collectivise the agricultural sector and immobilise the peasantry as a political force against his regime. EVIDENCE - how did life change? The NKVD were given quotas to round up and imprison as many peasants as possible, and transport them to gulags. Peasants deemed as too resistant, or counter-revolutionaries, were shot. Between 1930-1, 1.8 million peasants were deported to inhospitable areas such as Siberia. EXPLANATION - The way Stalin imposed these changes meant the peasants were subjected to inhumane and torturous conditions. The peasants were seen as hostile to his regime.

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