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Across the country’s agricultural communities were a number of peasants labeled kulaks by the government.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Relatively affluent farmers, known as kulaks, were among the groups targeted.

From Reuters • Nov. 6, 2019

“No one expected such a trick,” the Party’s official meeting minutes noted, and explained the suicide as the “provocation of kulaks and shamans.”

From The New Yorker • Aug. 15, 2019

Resistance was especially strong among kulaks, a class of wealthy peasants.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

The first Five Year Plan was launched by Stalin in 1929, and the collectivization of land and the liquidation of the kulaks began at the same time.

From Time Magazine Archive