collectivization
- noun
- /kəˌlɛktɪvaɪˈzeɪʃən/
- Farmers in Poland famously resisted communism by resisting collectivization.
- the collectivization of agriculture
So for Stalin, there are many motives that roll into collectivization.
- So for Stalin, there are many motives that roll into collectivization.
- It means that the Ukrainians are left all alone in the middle of collectivization.
- I mean, there's some sense of that, the collectivization that this idea was a failure.
Examples
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The historian detailed the impacts of collectivization on rural life during the Soviet era.
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Agricultural smallholders disappeared almost completely after the collectivization in 1960.
Academic text (1993) -
The collectivization of livestock production and the establishment of some centers were a part of this process.
Academic text (1999) -
To greater and lesser degrees, these peoples have been incorporated into the Soviet political economy through collectivization.
Academic text (1991) -
In a voluntary system, some will organize themselves into collectives; others will avoid any collectivization.
Blog text (18) -
Polina's father had died in the thirties during collectivization.
Fiction book (1995) -
With the abandonment of collectivization at the end of the Cultural Revolution, a power vacuum emerged in the countryside.
Academic text (2008) -
While few Zionists were outright Marxists, the collectivization of the land and natural resources was a widely held value among socialist Zionists.
Academic text (1996) -
Of all Asia's communist states (including the U.S.S.R.), only North Korea avoided famine in the course of its collectivization of agriculture.
Academic text (1992) -
The government's policy of collectivization aimed to unify agricultural practices under state control.
Synonyms
Taking a business or industry into government ownership
Putting industries or services under state ownership
The process of moving property and businesses from private owners to the state or community
Putting private property or services into community ownership so people share control
Antonyms
How Collective
- Specialized
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
collectivization = collectivize (transparent) = collect + ive + ize + ation
The noun names the process/result of 'collectivize' (to make collective) using a standard '-ation' nominalization.
Etymology
Collectivization comes from collect which means 'gather' and the ending -ization which shows the 'act of making'. One related word is collective, which means 'shared by a group'. So collectivization is the act of gathering land, work, or resources so they are owned or run together by a group or the state.