collectivization

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More than half the nation’s livestock was lost under collectivization in the 1930s, and the numbers did not recover until the 1950s.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

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

During his infancy, the forced collectivization of the land turned a once-fertile region into “a famine disaster area,” the exiled writer and biologist Zhores A. Medvedev wrote in a biography of Mr. Gorbachev.

From New York Times • 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 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