The Second Phase of Dekulakisation, 1931

Abstract

The Politburo decision on dekulakisation on January 30, 1930, divided the kulaks into three categories. Kulaks in Category i, the ‘counterrevolutionary kulak aktiv’, were to be confined in concentration camps; those within this Category who were organisers of terrorist acts, of counter-revolutionary disturbances and of insurrectionary organisations were to be executed. Category ii consisted of ‘the remaining elements of the kulak aktiv, especially from the richest kulaks and semi-landowners’. Category ii households were to be exiled to remote localities in the USSR and remote districts within their own region. The decision stated that 60,000 kulaks were to be exiled in Category i and 150,000 in Category ii. A further category, Category iii, consisted of kulaks who were to remain within their own district, and were to be resettled on new land areas outside the boundaries of the kolkhozy.