collectivization
State seizes farms
Collectivization is the process of consolidating individual holdings—typically farms or businesses—into collective ownership, usually under state control.
The term is most associated with Soviet agricultural policy in the 1930s, when peasant farms were forcibly merged into large collective farms (kolkhozy), resulting in widespread famine.
Stalin's collectivization campaign killed millions.
The word carries connotations of coercion and ideological rigidity.
Soviet autocrat, mid-century
- StalinismTotalitarian Communist doctrine
- command economyState-controlled economic system
- planned economyCentralized resource allocation system
- central planningGovernment directs all production
nationalization · state ownership · quota · propaganda · party line · gulag · purge · show trials
Low-ranking agricultural workers
- kulaksLanded Russian peasantry
- dekulakizationEliminating wealthy peasant class
- land redistributionReassigning property among populations
- harvestGathering mature crops
crops · livestock · tractors · sowing · tillage · irrigation · mechanization · agrarian reform
Prosperous Russian peasant
- dekulakizationEliminating wealthy peasant class
- dispossessionDeprival of property rights
- expropriationGovernment taking private property
- deportationLegal expulsion from country
persecution · famine · Holodomor · peasant uprising · sabotage · repression · confiscation · class enemy
State-led revolutionary socialism
- communismCollective ownership system
- socialismCommunal economic control
- proletariatLaborers lacking capital ownership
- bourgeoisieCapitalist ownership class
class struggle · revolution · public ownership · redistribution · classless society · Maoism · egalitarianism · anti-capitalism
Israeli communal farm
- communeShared-living community
- cooperativeJointly operated enterprise
- shared ownershipJoint holding of property
- mutual aidCooperative community support
communal living · pooled resources · common property · group ownership · federation · syndicate · association · communalism
Stalin
Soviet autocrat, mid-century
- StalinismTotalitarian Communist doctrine
- command economyState-controlled economic system
- planned economyCentralized resource allocation system
central planning · nationalization · state ownership · quota · propaganda · party line · gulag · purge · show trials · Holodomor
peasants
Low-ranking agricultural workers
- kulaksLanded Russian peasantry
- dekulakizationEliminating wealthy peasant class
- land redistributionReassigning property among populations
harvest · crops · livestock · tractors · sowing · tillage · irrigation · mechanization · agrarian reform · agricultural output
kulak
Prosperous Russian peasant
- dekulakizationEliminating wealthy peasant class
- dispossessionDeprival of property rights
- expropriationGovernment taking private property
deportation · persecution · famine · Holodomor · peasant uprising · sabotage · repression · confiscation · class enemy · liquidation
Marxism-Leninism
State-led revolutionary socialism
- communismCollective ownership system
- socialismCommunal economic control
- proletariatLaborers lacking capital ownership
bourgeoisie · class struggle · revolution · public ownership · redistribution · classless society · Maoism · egalitarianism · anti-capitalism · means of production
kibbutz
Israeli communal farm
- communeShared-living community
- cooperativeJointly operated enterprise
- shared ownershipJoint holding of property
mutual aid · communal living · pooled resources · common property · group ownership · federation · syndicate · association · communalism · ujamaa
- Eastern EuropePoland, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria
- communismMarx, Marxism, Leninism, Lenin, proletariat
- Russian HistorySoviet Union, tsars, Tsarist Russia, Romanov, czars
- socialismMarxism, communism, proletariat, bourgeoisie, communal ownership
- Soviet communismLenin, Stalin, Leninism, Bolsheviks, Stalinism
- Soviet EraUSSR, Soviet Union, Soviet rule, CCCP, Eastern Bloc
collectivizationprivatization
State sells public assets
private ownership · individual ownership · denationalization · free enterprise · capitalism
collectivizationenclosure
Confined, bordered space
homesteading · smallholding · family farming · land distribution
collectivizationprivatization
State sells public assets
individualization · denationalization · decentralization · demutualization · fragmentation
collect, collection, collected, collective, collector, collections, collectively, collectivism, collectives