I'm shitposting and at work but i'm sure someone will come in and give a proper account of everything but as I understand it they were seen as something akin to a petite bourgeois class. I really need to brush up ussr history myself tbh. Also, again as far as I know, gulags were basically just prisons and the word is mostly used by the west to conjure up the idea of a scary slave camp bc of anti-soviet propaganda.

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Kulaks were peasants who owned capital, essentially proto-capitalists acting under the fuedal framework of the Russian Empire, who mostly owned rural infrastructure ie farms, mills etc. Naturally, they resisted every single reform the Bolsheviks made, and were ultimately dispossessed in a number of ways including forced deportation to make way for collectivized infrastructure.