Definition of "collectivization" []

• The act of collectivizing (noun)

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• "And there were -- one of the side effects of the five-year plan was that a great number of people were arrested, and there was a-- during a process called collectivization, when all the -- when the Soviet farms were made into state farms, peasants were made into state farms, many, many people arrested."
• "So there was this thing called collectivization = the giving everything part."
• "Note the strange lack of anything resembling Socialism or Marxism, or even any kind of collectivization, except where it pertains to aiding your own country in the long run by being a productive, well-educated member of society - a goal that one would hope even this Administration's most obtuse critics could get behind at least in spirit, if not in the details."