1936 Peasant Conference

The 1936 Peasant Conference was a significant meeting held in the Soviet Union where communist leaders discussed policies affecting rural farmers. They aimed to organize peasants into collective farms to accelerate industrialization and consolidate control over agriculture. The conference emphasized the importance of removing individual peasant farms in favor of large collective farms, marking a shift towards rapid collectivization. This policy had profound social and economic impacts, often leading to resistance from farmers and contributing to widespread upheaval in the countryside during Stalin's early years.