Routledge Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition
collectivization of agriculture (N5)
The reorganization of a country’s agriculture into state farms thereby depriving peasants of landownership and management.
Collectivization in the USSR was introduced in 1929 but was not implemented in a major and systematic way until the 1930s: it was accompanied by much resistance and a famine which killed millions. Subsequently, other countries following the principles of Marxist-Leninism have attempted draconian changes of this kind, e.g. Mao’s China and Ethiopia.
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