... withdraw from the market, as the industrialisation programme would then be threatened. Peasants were emphasised to join the collective farm (kolkhoz) voluntarily. Stalin implemented the Ural-Siberian method, "The method, sometimes called Self Taxation, involved the use of social pressure against kulaks".2 This was the start of dekulakisation, this campaign was the crucial weapon in the collectivisation process. Dekulakisation was divided into three classes; category one: kulaks were forced into labour camps or killed; category two: the kulaks were exiled; category three: the least dangerous were removed to a smaller patch. Dekulakisation had at least three functions, ideologically, it was an attack on the enemy; politically, it provided terror in the countryside and peasants were afraid of the consequences; economically, it supplied the state with the suitable foundation for the kolkhoz. The forced collectivisation and deklukisation campaigns raged through the countryside, "...more than a quarter of a million volunteers and conscripts (OGPU ...

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