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# collectivisation

«collectivisation» in Mova's school dictionary: **The forcing of farmers to give up their own land and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (collectivisation; uncountable; US spelling collectivization)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (history) The forcing of farmers to give up their own land and animals and join big farms run by the state, as in the Soviet Union in the late 1920s and 1930s. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collectivisation/#m1)

2) More generally, putting things that belonged to separate people under shared or state ownership. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collectivisation/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons it is part of the story of the Soviet Union under Stalin: private farms were taken and joined into collective farms (kolkhozes); farmers who resisted were punished, and grain was seized. In Ukraine this led to the man-made famine of 1932–1933 called the Holodomor, in which millions of people died; Ukraine and many countries recognise it as a genocide. China also collectivised farms in the 1950s. Phrases: «forced collectivisation», «the collectivisation of agriculture».

### examples

- Collectivisation took land away from millions of farmers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collectivisation/#x1)
- During collectivisation, families had to give their cows to the collective farm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collectivisation/#x2)
- Forced collectivisation helped cause the Holodomor famine in Ukraine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collectivisation/#x3)
- Our history book has a chapter on collectivisation in the Soviet Union. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collectivisation/#x4)
- Many farmers who refused collectivisation were sent far away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collectivisation/#x5)
- Collectivisation was meant to grow more food, but harvests fell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collectivisation/#x6)

### note

UK spelling with -s- (collectivisation), US spelling with -z- (collectivization). Uncountable. The verb is «collectivise» (collectivize). Do not confuse it with friendly sharing such as a co-op that people choose to join: collectivisation in history usually means it was forced.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «collectivisation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collectivisation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.