collectivization AmE , also: collectivisation BrE

A high price is still being paid for what was done in collectivization.

Collectivization brought a lot of resistance from the local population.

"I tell them that this is no longer the age of collectivization," he said.

The few areas which had escaped collectivization because they seemed too poor were now to be brought into line.

Farmers were forced to hand over their land for collectivization.

The collectivization process began slowly but accelerated in 1955 and 1956.

By 1959 the state had accomplished the collectivization of agriculture.

This was due to the method of collectivization in Russia.

The sweeping collectivization often involved tremendous human and social costs.

Forty years ago, his family opposed collectivization of its 50-acre farm.

Critics say the program is a stepping stone to collectivization.

However, his parents were killed in 1933 during collectivization.

With the massive collectivization of 1956, the village became an agricultural community.

Its stand on other issues, like collectivization of agriculture remains murky.

Throughout wide areas, land, industry, commerce and services underwent collectivization.

With his mother and two siblings, he worked on the family farm until they were forced to give their land during the process of collectivization.

The action was a protest against the Socialist collectivization of agriculture.

"It started earlier than that, in 1929, when the whole collectivization started."

Like everyone else, we lived through the hard times - repression, collectivization, industrialization.

Collectivization and "socialist construction in the area of national culture development" was then carried out.

At the same time, the pace of collectivization in the countryside was accelerated under the plan.

In such manner, the state introduced forced collectivization of villages.

The rural economy suffered from the lack of investments and the collectivization.

Collectivization of agriculture, which was accomplished in several stages, began about 1952.

Collectivization was, he said, "in the final analysis a transformation of fundamental importance."