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Kulak as you said pretty much a 'well-to-do' peasant and the amount of these peasants increased after the Stolypin reforms which helped to elevate the status of the peasants and thus formed more 'kulaks'. Stolypin was later assassinated because he was undermining the goals of the Bolshevik jews because Bolshevik jews relied on the conditions on Russia being in a economically instable condition for them to initiate their revolution, this is why WW1 was necessary for them to achieve their goal of overthrowing the Tsar and taking over Russia. It's also why Tsar Alexander II was assassinated as his reforms were aimed at improving the rights and freedoms and the economic prosperity of the Russians, if he had succeeded, the Bolsheviks would have lost the narrative they needed to push for their communist revolution.

Before the revolution, kulak meant:

Peasants who owned over 8 acres of land towards the end of the Russian Empire

After the Bolshevik revolution:

Peasants who withheld grain from the Bolsheviks, peasants who owned property who didn't ally with the Bolsheviks.

During Stalin's Five-Year plan:

Peasants who owned a couple of cows or had give or six acres more than their neighbors.

Later kulak was defined as:

Any peasant who does not sell all his grain to the Soviet state. Peasants who were unwilling to join collective farms had to be ''annihilated as a class''.

At the end, Kulak lost its original definition entirely which was connected to an 'economic status' because people who were deemed as kulaks had been deprived so much by the Soviet state that they were poorer than what was classified as a poor peasant back then and were way poorer than the urban residents. This is what heavily attributed to the Holodomor as Ukrainians were branded as Kulaks.

By this point Kulak just meant anyone who went against the state and had no economic meaning anymore. The reason for this as stated in my picture is because this allowed the state to brand anyone as Kulak and thus give them justification to exert their authority over anyone they liked. The definition kept changing to include more and more people to the point where anyone could be kulak.

Sorta like Unvaccinated is losing its meaning more and more over time as people with 2 doses are starting to become classified as 'unvaccinated' because of the introduction of the third dose and then people with 3 doses will be classified as 'unvaccinated' when the introduction of the fourth dose happens. As times goes on, as with the term Kulak, unvaccinated will have lost all of its original meaning.

Great work!