In the Soviet Union, agricultural collectivization and rapid industrialization take place.
Between 50,000 and 100,000 people may have been killed in Bulgaria beginning in 1944 as part of agricultural collectivization and political repression.
Between 60,000 and 300,000 people may have been killed in Romania beginning in 1945 as part of agricultural collectivization and political repression.
He witnessed the mass starvation of the Ukrainian peasantry as part of Joseph Stalin's agricultural collectivization.
Mao also forced mass industrialization, which, coupled with the extremes of forced agricultural collectivization, killed somewhere around 16.5 million to 40 million Chinese from 1957 to 1961.
Chief changes in the lives of rural Chinese included the introduction of a mandatory process of agricultural collectivization, which was introduced incrementally.
After the universal agricultural collectivization, land codes of the Soviet republics lost their significance.
He writes, evidently without irony, that the kulaks were liquidated for "the worthy cause of agricultural collectivization."
The authorities wrongly expected that production would increase as a result of agricultural collectivization, because of plans for exporting agricultural products based on attempts to industrialize.
In the late 1920s and early 1930s, large-scale agricultural collectivization resulted in widespread famine in Central Asia.