collectivization

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

From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2023

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

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 the years following the Revolution it was able to step into this commanding position almost unopposed, because the whole process was represented as an act of collectivization.

From "1984" by George Orwell