collectivization
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No, China is probably not headed for another famine like the one that killed millions as a result of Mao’s insistence on a disruptive bid for simultaneous industrialization and agriculture collectivization between 1958 and 1962.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 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 1958, the party launched the Great Leap Forward, a plan of forced agricultural collectivization and rural industrialization.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2021
In addition to the collectivization of farms, the Five-Year Plans also aimed to industrialize the USSR.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
Vocabulary lists containing collectivization
Chapter 25: World War II and the Cold War
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Government and the Economy, Sections 1–2
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