collectivization

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.

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

The first Five-Year Plan seized this land for the state under a program called “collectivization.”

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

Forced collectivization of agriculture under Joseph Stalin, Lenin’s successor as the Soviet leader, drove a wave of famine in the early 1930s.