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
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
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 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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