 Complete the following phrase:  As a part of the plan, the government took control of agriculture through the state and collective farms kolkhozes. By a decree of February 1930, about one million individual peasants kulaks were forced off their land. Many peasants strongly opposed regimentation by the state, often slaughtering their herds when faced with the loss of their land. In some sections they revolted, and countless peasants deemed kulaks by the authorities were executed. The combination of bad weather, deficiencies of the hastily established collective farms, and massive confiscation of grain precipitated a serious famine, and several million peasants died of starvation, 