Question: what was the reaction of kulaks to collectivizing agriculture be specific

title: Collectivization in the Soviet Union
text: After these deportations , the pace of collectivization increased as a flood of farmers rushed into kolkhozes . Within two weeks 1740 new kolkhozes were established and by the end of 1950 , just 4.5 % of Latvian farmsteads remained outside the collectivized units ; about 226,900 farmsteads belonged to collectives , of which there were now around 14,700 . Rural life changed as farmers ' daily movements were dictated to by plans , decisions and quotas formulated elsewhere and delivered through an intermediate non-farming hierarchy . The new kolkhozes , especially smaller ones , were ill - equipped and poor -- at first farmers were paid once a year in kind and then in cash , but salaries were very small and at times farmers went unpaid or even ended up owing money to the kholhoz . Farmers still had small pieces of land ( not larger than 0.5 ha ) around their houses where they grew food for themselves . Along with collectivization , the government tried to uproot the custom of living in individual farmsteads by resettling people in villages . However this process failed due to lack of money since the Soviets planned to move houses as well .