STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1840, sig. 109-5/68 (damaged)

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25a 8 big to make use of. But a new social economic differentiation began in the countryside, i.e. the most capable and diligent peasants quickly came forward, expanded their economies and gained more and more influence in the village, so they became kulaks. The lazy and peacocks remained backward and became increasingly semi-proletarians. In the new formation of the peasant upper class, which was characterized as a capitalist exploitative layer, the Bolshevik state saw a political danger because it did not want to tolerate the economic establishment of the peasants. d) Collective- As a counterweight against this development, economy (colchose- the Soviet government at an accelerated pace of sovchose at the end of 1927) decided to form collective-economics (colkhose) first on a voluntary basis and to expand its state-owned councils (sovchosis). The reason given was that the small and smallest farms do not yield enough jobs due to high self-consumption and are also a major obstacle to mechanization. However, as far as the formation of colchoses was concerned, success was not possible. Collectively, only the poorest declassified villagers voluntarily joined forces, who had low-fig inventory, while both the middle-class villagers and the local community were in the same position.