Where have the Russian villages disappeared? / Editorial Office

Fields overgrown with weeds and wastelands on the site of former villages are a typical picture for our middle strip. At the same time, at the beginning of the twentieth century, 85% of the inhabitants of Russia were peasants. Where did this civilization disappear, why so quickly? And why don’t most of us know our ancestry beyond our great-grandfathers? In this video we will talk about dekulakization — the Russian catastrophe, the consequences of which we, without realizing it, feel for ourselves every day. 00:00 Where have the Russian villages disappeared? 03:25 Stories of the dispossessed 07:48 Who are the kulaks? 09:28 How did the peasants live in tsarist Russia and after the revolution? 14:18 Why did Stalin need collectivization? 20:31 Was the Soviet government afraid of the peasants? 26:00 Why didn't the peasants want to go to the collective farms? 31:03 Who and how determined whom to repress? 36:19 How did the kulaks live in exile? 53:39 Did Stalin know about the "local excesses"? 55:48 How did the peasants resist collectivization? 1:01:13 Why are modern families still afraid to talk about dekulakization? 1:06:42 How did Yuri Shevchuk find out that his grandfather had been dispossessed? 1:07:53 The only Russian Centre for Memory of the dispossessed 1:10:47 Mass famine 1:15:00 How many victims of collectivization were there? 1:16:51 How did people live on collective farms at that time? 1:20:23 Why didn't Khrushchev and Brezhnev dissolve the collective farms? 1:26:10 Instead of peasants there are farmers, instead of collective farms there are agricultural holdings 1:31:10 About the attitude to Stalin 1:35:14 How would we live if there was no dekulakization?