COLLECTIVIZATION Definition & Meaning

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collectivization

[ kuh-lek-tuh-vahy-zey-shuhn ]

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noun

the act or process of organizing a people, industry, enterprise, etc., according to collectivism, an economic system in which control, especially of the means of production, is shared cooperatively or centralized:
After World War I Russia introduced a full-scale command economy, including the collectivization of agriculture and the nationalization of almost all industrial capital.
the act of making something apply to a group of people as a whole rather than as individuals:
The collectivization of guilt is a tool used to show that the community in which the crimes occurred has yet to become a community that can guarantee they will not be repeated.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of collectivization¹

collectiiviz(e) ( def ) + -ation ( def )

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In the 1930s, his successor, Joseph Stalin, cited the “inefficiency” of individual farming as justification for the collectivization of millions of peasants into state farms, creating a “terror-famine” in Ukraine.

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Ukrainian villages have bounced back before, from war, famine and collectivization.

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The first Five-Year Plan seized this land for the state under a program called “collectivization.”

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

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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.

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