Timeline Friday 27 December 1929

Events on Friday 27 December 1929 1

• 1929 Stalin calls for the liquidation of the kulaks as a class Start of forced collectivisation and dekulakisation In a speech to Marxist agrarian scholars, Stalin announced a policy of eliminating the kulaks as a class. Mass deportations and forced collectivisation of Soviet agriculture followed and contributed to the famine of 1932-33.