Collectivisation
*planted: 26/03/2022last tended: 24/05/2025
Collectivisation saw to all these problems at once. It killed several million more people in the short term, and permanently dislocated the Soviet food supply; but forcing the whole country population into collective farms let the central government set the purchase prices paid for crops, and so let it take as large a surplus for investment as it liked
Most famously: land. In the Soviet Union.
But sometimes used generically as the (forced?) organisation of things so that they are owned / managed collectively. Could be by the state, could be by cooperatives.
Prominent in the film Land and Freedom.
1. Elsewhere
1.1. In my garden
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