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Episode 134, the Soviet Union Part 4, Collectivization.

The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 started in the cities, particularly

in St. Petersburg, or Petrograd, later Leningrad. It was a revolution of workers who worked

in businesses owned by the group of people they called capitalists. But during the summer of

1917, there was another revolution happening all over Russia,

and that was the revolution in the countryside.

This revolution was focused on land redistribution.

Before 1917, rural Russia was largely controlled by large landowners in rural peasants,

who would work for the landowners and then work the land for them

and give some sort of percentage of what they were doing to the landowners and then work the land for them and give some sort of

percentage of what they were doing to those landowners. The poor peasants were not a fan of

this arrangement, as you might imagine, and their greatest goal as a class was to throw down

the landowners and own their own land that they could reap the rewards from.

The first Russian Revolution in the spring of 1917 gave them the opportunity to achieve these goals, and they would take advantage of it throughout the summer of 1917, with many

instances of peasants taking control of the land that they lived on, and depending on the

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