Differences Of Joseph Stalin And Communism
The unfair treatment and abominable living conditions of the working class was due to industrialization; it was the reason …show more content…
Punishments included arrest, being sent to gulags or forfeiture of their land. Stalin also targeted the wealthier peasants, known as the kulaks, by sending them to the gulags. Stalin’s actions caused an explicit class struggle. The point of Marxism was to remove the class struggle by ending class divisions, but Stalin heightened the class struggle by putting the burden of supplying the cost of industrialization on the peasantry. This collectivization of agriculture caused great famines among the peasant class for the peasant farmers were forced to sell a majority of their crops (99%) at a very low price to the state, leaving them with little food and insufficient money to purchase food and other basic