Dispossession, imprisonment, deportation and famine After experimenting in Siberia the previous autumn and winter, the November 1929 plenum of the Communist Party Central Committee decided to proceed with the forced collectivization of the countryside and the “liquidation of the kulaks as a social group” (a process also known as “dekulakization”). The collectivization campaign supported a … Continue reading “Special” Settlements, 1930-1933