collectivization
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Forced collectivization of agriculture under Joseph Stalin, Lenin’s successor as the Soviet leader, drove a wave of famine in the early 1930s.
From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2022
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
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
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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