Peasants received large scale loans and their old debts were cancelled. Poor peasants were given more land

Balts forgot about nationalism and became far more interested in economic questions

Much of the swing towards support for the communists was because the Nazis and their west Ukrainian collaborators reversed the progressive agrarian reform.

The 1944 agrarian reform was much more effective than the 1939 attempt

The Soviets viewed agrarian reform as the key counter-insurgency tactic, more important than police and military actions

Khruschev, leader of Soviet Ukraine at the time, was particularly certain that Kulaks were responsible for nationalist insurgency. However, this assumption may have been counter-productive

Though collectivization may not have been very popular, it cut off insurgents from food supplies.

In my view, one of the main strategic interests behind collectivization in the USSR was to control food supplies in case of war. Given the famines experienced in WW1 as compared to the WW2 ability to keep troops fed, it seemed to have worked

https://scholarship.haverford.... This author has my favorite articles on collectivization. He argues that modern debates are misguided to look for the cause of collectivization in 'Stalinist dogmatism'. Instead, it had a mainly military purpose

Lack of control over food supplies was largely what lost the Russian empire the first world war, and it was decisive in the Russian civil war. By collectivizing agriculture, it was possible to guarantee control.

The 1927 Anglo-Soviet war scare also played an important role. Faced with rumours of war, peasants stocked up on grain, leading to a food crisis in the cities. No coincidence that collectivization began soon after https://www.researchgate.net/p...

The other political benefit of collectivization in west Ukraine, despite unpopularity, was that it created a section of west Ukrainians highly loyal to the Soviet government, since they had benefited from land redistributions

@EventsUkraine Where is this from?

@pakigonzalo It's a book. You can find it on libgen

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