collectivization

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In the 1930s, his successor, Joseph Stalin, cited the “inefficiency” of individual farming as justification for the collectivization of millions of peasants into state farms, creating a “terror-famine” in Ukraine.

From Salon

Ukrainian villages have bounced back before, from war, famine and collectivization.

From New York Times

There, she discovered that Mao’s earlier experiment with collectivization had been a disaster.

From New York Times

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

Resistance to collectivization and the policy’s inefficiencies aggravated famines; Ukraine’s 1932-33 “Holodomor” killed an estimated 4 million people, and many term it an outright genocide.

From Washington Times