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

During his infancy, the forced collectivization of the land turned a once-fertile region into “a famine disaster area,” the exiled writer and biologist Zhores A. Medvedev wrote in a biography of Mr. Gorbachev.

From New York Times • 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

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 addition to the collectivization of farms, the Five-Year Plans also aimed to industrialize the USSR.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein