collectivization

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He also began the collectivization of agriculture by forcing peasants to labor together on state-owned farms instead of tending to farms worked by individual families.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

His grandfather on his father’s side, Andrei, rejected collectivization and tried to make it on his own.

From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 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

The losses for Russia in the 1990s were nothing like the horrors of collectivization.

From Salon • Oct. 7, 2021

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