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
Stalin speeded the drive to collectivization, and local officials did what they could to comply with the new targets for grain collection.
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
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Chapter 25: World War II and the Cold War
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Government and the Economy, Sections 1–2
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