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Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class".

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General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Highest political position in the Soviet Union

The General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). From 1924 until the country's dissolution in 1991, the officeholder was the recognized leader of the Soviet Union. Prior to…
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Joseph Stalin

Leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held office as General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1922 to 1952 and as the fourth premier from 1941 until his death. Despite initially…
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Dekulakization

Soviet repression of prosperous peasants (1929–1932)

Dekulakization was the Soviet campaign of political repressions, including arrests, deportations, or executions of millions of supposed kulaks and their families. Redistribution of farmland started in 1917 and lasted until 1933, but was most active in the 1929–1932 period of the…
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