Word: kulak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With stark, brutal candor the Soviet State announced, last week, through its official news organ Isvestia, that savage and murderous resistance to the Soviet Power is now being made by members of the Kulak or "Rich Peasant" class-the class most relentlessly taxed by Moscow's sovereign Proletariat...
Doubled was the gravity of this grim account when it appeared how widespread are the areas where red flames reared high, last week, and crude Kulak butcher knives carved the white flesh of "women as well as men." Named as trouble centers by Isvestia were Irkutsk in Siberia, Minsk and Smolensk in White Russia, Kiev in the Ukraine, and three important towns on the upper, middle and lower Volga River - Yarosalve, Samara and Stalingrad. The latter and famed town is not the birth place of Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin but a strategic base which he valorously defended against the "White...
...understanding of the present days of wrath between Agrarians and Proletarians in Russia. The fact is that Dictator Stalin is straining and perhaps overtaxing the resources of the country to get money for his industrialization program. He has turned the screw of direct taxation on the Kulak. With varying harshness in varying districts he has forced peasant and Kulak to sell their grain to the State at prices fixed by it-low prices. Most of this grain is consumed in Russian cities, but Stalin's policy is to sell as much as possible abroad. Profits from grain and nearly...
...These Kulak speculators," rasped M. Stalin, "shall be prevented from ever again attempting to starve the Red Army and the urban Proletariat...