collectivization

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In 1958, the party launched the Great Leap Forward, a plan of forced agricultural collectivization and rural industrialization.

From New York Times

The communist collectivization of farmlands had drastically shrunk the rice harvests — when everyone, regardless of effort, receives the same share of the crop, nobody wants to work hard — so hunger was ever-present.

From Washington Post

But the practice largely faded in the early 20th century, when the Soviet authorities confiscated livestock from nomads during collectivization.

From New York Times

The Soviet Union tried collectivization, which brought land and resources into common ownership.

From Nature

“Without collectivization,” he told the German newspaper Die Zeit, “overcoming capitalism is inconceivable.”

From Washington Post