Soviet Propaganda poster demanding farmers to get rid of the Kulaks. 1930.
Soviet Propaganda poster demanding farmers to get rid of the Kulaks. 1930. Kulaks were affluent peasants in the later Russian Empire, Soviet Russia, and the early Soviet Union. During 1929?1933, Stalin's leadership of the total campaign to collectivize the peasantry meant that 'peasants with a couple of cows or five or six acres more than their neighbours' were labelled 'kulaks'