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The Hens (Chickens)

//**"... the hens made a determined effort to twart Napoleon's wishes." **//

Book's Parallel to History: The Kulaks or Russian Peasant Class


 * Brief Information and History on the Kulaks **
 * Owned large farms
 * Wealthy and prosperous
 * Considered capitalists and enemies of socialism by Stalin
 * The term "Kulak" was originally insulting amongst society
 * Means "fist" in Russian
 * Played central roles in the villages (lent money, provided mortgages, etc.)
 * "Natural conservative political force" -Stalin
 * Made up of 15% of population after WWI
 * Collectivization was forced upon these people by Stalin


 * What is Collectivization? **
 * "Revolution from above"- Part of Stalin's Five Year Plan
 * Included two new goals for domestic policy: rapid industrialization and collectivization of agriculture
 * Purpose: To eliminate all capitalism and hold a political dominance over the Kulaks
 * Collectivization- the transformation of individual farms to a system of large state collective farms
 * Goal- to reduce the economic power of the Kulaks
 * Stalin believed this would improve the productivity of agriculture and produce more grain reserves to feed the growing urban labor force.
 * What is there was a surplus? Stalin used this to pay for the industrialization.
 * [|Stalin focused on the Kulaks]
 * 5 million Kulaks were deported and killed
 * Results of collectivization- agricultural productivity decreased and a severe famine occured throughout Russia between 1932 and 1933
 * Stalin's Five Year Plan was originally only to consume 20% of farms, but by 1940, 97% of farms participated in collective farming.




 * The Hens in Animal Farm vs. The Relation to Russia's History of Kulaks **


 * **ANIMAL FARM** || **HISTORY** ||
 * Surrendering the eggs ||  Attempt by Stalin to collectivize the Kulaks  ||
 * The hen's revolt ||  Resisted until they were starved into submission  ||
 * Attempt to resist following the order ||  4 million- 10 million peasants were starved to death  ||
 * 9 hens died during the time ||  The peasants slaughtered their livestock in protest  ||
 * The hens revolted by smashing their eggs ||  The livestock on the peasants farms decreased by 50%-80% between 1928 and 1935  ||
 * The farm was deprived of eggs during the hen's revolt ||  Stalin killed any peasant that engaged in killing their livestock for the benefit of their own  ||
 * Napoleon killed any animal that committed a crime, including the hens ||  Peasant's resistance to collective farming  ||


 * Quotes from //Animal Farm// **


 * And you hens, how many eggs have you laid in this last year, and how many of those eggs ever hatched into chickens? The rest have all gone to market to bring in money for Jones and his men.” (Page 6)


 * “He [Snowball] formed the Egg Production Committee for the hens.” (Page 20)


 * “…if more money were needed, it would have to be made up by the sale of eggs, for which there was always a market in Willingdon. The hens, said Napoleon, should welcome this sacrifice as their own special contribution towards the building of the windmill.” (Page 39)


 * “…the hens, who had just come in to lay again, must surrender their eggs.” (Page 46)


 * **﻿****﻿**"... the hens heard this, they raised a terrible outcry." (Page 46)

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(2010). Collectivization. Amazon Books. Retrieved from http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUScollectivization.htm
 * Works Cited **

Encyclopedia Britannica. (2010). Kulaks. On Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Retrieved from http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/324575/kulak

Library of Congress. (2010). Collectivization and Industrialization. Revelations from Russian Archives. Retrieved from http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/coll.html

Rayment, W.J. (2010). The Russian Kulaks. In Depth Information Company. Retrieved from ﻿http://www.indepthinfo.com/russia/kulaks.htm