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collectivization  

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  • Collectivization, a policy pursued in the Soviet Union and most other communist countries, refers to a process whereby private agricultural lands were seized by the state and transferred either to collective farms (kolkhoz in Russian) or state farms (sovkhoz). The policy was unpopular with farmers and was accompanied by violence. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Collectivization]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-TD4727CR-D

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