This class of people made up the largest portion of those executed during the (*) Great Purge.
A poster denouncing these people shows one being punched in the back by a giant fist, a reference to the origin of their name in the word for "fist". The institutions that supplanted these people were protected from theft by the Law of the Spikelets. Hiring batrak laborers was one of the many, and often arbitrary, means of defining someone as one of these people. This class of people made up the largest portion of those executed during the (*) Great Purge. The persecution of these people was a major cause of the Holodomor and they were removed to make way for kolkhoz and sovkhoz collective farms. For 10 points, identify these relatively wealthy peasants deemed class enemies during Soviet agricultural collectivization.
A poster denouncing these people shows one being punched in the back by a giant fist, a reference to the origin of their name in the word for "fist".
kulaks (prompt on class enemies or similar answers before giveaway)