De-kulakization

Decossackization was a policy implemented by the Bolsheviks during the Civil War and in the first decades afterward, aimed at depriving the Cossacks of their independent political and military rights, as well as liquidating the Cossacks as a social, ethnic, and cultural community, an estate of the Russian state. The policy of decossackization eventually resulted in mass Red Terror and repression against the Cossacks, manifested in mass executions, hostage-taking, burning of villages, and incitement of non-locals against the Cossacks. During the decossackization process, requisitions of domestic livestock and agricultural products were also carried out, and poor peasants from among the non-locals were resettled on lands previously owned by the Cossacks.