ned farms which had to produce state quotas of produce. Collectivisation made it easier to produce grain at rock bottom prices, accrued labour for the new factories through the labour camps, and by forcing large scale production, it was possible to make an increased grain production, however this did not prove to be a favourable option among the peasants.
             Stalin allowed two kinds of farming institutions to develop, one was the state farm, known as the sovkhoz in which the workers received wages paid by the state, the other, more common type was the collective farm, or kolkhoz where land was seized from it's owners and divided up, and granted to approximately 50-100 families who were to work on it and fulfil a weekly state quota. At first collectives were to be a voluntary movement, and the government offered incentives such as free housing and seed to entice them, along with machinery to harvest their crops such as tractors, however it was fiercely resisted. Eventually Stalin lost patience and ordered his party officials to ruthlessly speed up the process of collectivisation. Kulaks, who were the wealthier peasants who owned the land formed the majority of the peasants and naturally despised the newly enforced movement as they had the most to lose. They became the government's scapegoats, and hatred of the Kulak's as a class was encouraged as they were made out to be opposing the revolution.
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