Explain any 3 measures adopted by stalin to impose restriction on kulaks in russia.
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Firstly, the kulaks were identified; they were those peasants who were richer than the others. Those that employed others, those who owned more land or more animals.
Secondly, all agriculture was to be collectivised - that is, the state would appropriate all land, buildings, livestock and machinery and the farms in a village would all be managed as one entity. The kulaks were considered a threat because they would resist giving up their lands, and because some were employers - that made them bourgeoisie, a hated class for the Bolsheviks.
Thirdly, the kulaks were demonised. Propaganda from the centre, newspapers, pamphlets and slogans decried the kulaks. Party committees in the towns and villages told the collective farms, or those who had applied to join a collective, to point out who the kulaks were. They were arrested. What happened is that petty jealousies, rivalries, those who were owed money, machinery or even livestock, were singled out - for example a man who suspected that his wife had had an affair might point to her lover as a kulak, or someone who was owed money by a poorer peasant was said to be a kulak.
Finally, the Kulaks were removed, not only those arrested, but all were deported to Siberia, Kazakhstan or the Urals.