collectivization

American  

[kuh-lek-tuh-vahy-zey-shuhn] / kəˌlɛk təˌvaɪˈzeɪ ʃən /

especially British, collectivisation

noun

1. the act or process of organizing a people, industry, enterprise, etc., according to collectivism, an economic system in which control, especially of the means of production, is shared cooperatively or centralized.

   After World War I Russia introduced a full-scale command economy, including the collectivization of agriculture and the nationalization of almost all industrial capital.

2. the act of making something apply to a group of people as a whole rather than as individuals.

   The collectivization of guilt is a tool used to show that the community in which the crimes occurred has yet to become a community that can guarantee they will not be repeated.

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Etymology

Origin of collectivization

collectiiviz(e) ( def. ) + -ation ( def. )

Example Sentences

There, she discovered that Mao’s earlier experiment with collectivization had been a disaster.

From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2023

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born to a peasant family on March 2, 1931, amid one of dictator Josef Stalin’s most savage endeavors, the forced collectivization of agriculture that left millions of rural Russians to starve.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2022

British journalist Walter Duranty had won a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for his stories on the supposed success of collectivization and other Soviet policies.

From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2022

The losses for Russia in the 1990s were nothing like the horrors of collectivization.

From Salon • Oct. 7, 2021

In the years following the Revolution it was able to step into this commanding position almost unopposed, because the whole process was represented as an act of collectivization.

From "1984" by George Orwell