Page "Kulak" Paragraph 1

According to the political theory of Marxism-Leninism of the early 20th century, the kulaks were class enemies of the poorer peasants.

Vladimir Lenin described them as " bloodsuckers, vampires, plunderers of the people and profiteers, who fatten on famine .” Marxism-Leninism had intended a revolution to liberate poor peasants and farm laborers alongside the proletariat ( urban and industrial workers ).

In addition, the planned economy of Soviet Bolshevism required the collectivization of farms and land to allow industrialization or conversion to large-scale agricultural production.

In practice, these Marxist-Leninist theories led to disruption of agriculture as government officials violently seized kulak farms and murdered resistors.