Ural-Siberian Method

우랄-시베리아 방식

A coercive grain procurement method introduced in the Soviet Union during the 1928 grain crisis. Village assemblies assigned delivery quotas to kulaks under a 'class approach'; refusal triggered a fine of up to five times the quota (pyatikratka, 'five-timer'), and continued refusal brought prosecution under Article 107 of the RSFSR Criminal Code: up to three years' imprisonment with confiscation of property. Stalin directed the method during his January 1928 tour of Siberia, it was first applied in the Urals and Siberia, and the Politburo approved its nationwide extension in March 1929. The method's relative 'success' in meeting procurement targets convinced Stalin that administrative coercion worked against the peasantry, paving the road to wholesale collectivization and dekulakization.