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

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

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

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein