collectivization
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Forced collectivization of agriculture under Joseph Stalin, Lenin’s successor as the Soviet leader, drove a wave of famine in the early 1930s.
From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2022
Accordingly, the collectivization of Polish agriculture was ended, Soviet advisers were sent home, political prisoners were released, and greater freedom was given to the Roman Catholic Church.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born to a peasant family on March 2, 1931, amid one of dictator Josef Stalin’s most savage endeavors, the forced collectivization of agriculture that left millions of rural Russians to starve.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2022
British journalist Walter Duranty had won a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for his stories on the supposed success of collectivization and other Soviet policies.
From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2022
In the years following the Revolution it was able to step into this commanding position almost unopposed, because the whole process was represented as an act of collectivization.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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Vocabulary lists containing collectivization
Chapter 25: World War II and the Cold War
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Government and the Economy, Sections 1–2
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