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noun

collectivisation

the organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism

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Six example sentences with collectivisation, each labelled with its topic.

  • Village families lost their private plots overnight when collectivisation merged every field into one enormous state farm.

    History

  • Grain output fell for six straight years after collectivisation, and planners blamed the weather rather than the policy.

    Economics

  • Debates about collectivisation split the party between those who wanted shared ownership and those defending the smallholder.

    Politics

  • Sholokhov's novel follows one Cossack village through collectivisation, and its arguments in the barn run longer than any speech.

    Literature

  • Critics of collectivisation reached back to Locke, arguing that a person's labor entitled him to whatever it produced.

    Philosophy

  • Soviet posters sold collectivisation with smiling tractor drivers and golden fields, an image the actual harvests never matched.

    Art

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