collectivization
(kəˌlɛktɪvaɪˈzeɪʃən)
[f. collective a. + -ization.]
The process or policy of collectivizing. Also attrib.
| 1890 Good Words Dec. 822/1 The collectivisation of capital is, from the socialistic point of view, a far more thorough and consistent scheme. 1933 Planning I. viii. 13 The Russian collectivisation campaign. 1947 A. L. Rowse End of Epoch 238 Collectivist farming had to be resorted to simultaneously with industrial collectivisation. 1961 Spectator 6 Oct. 455 Stalin never seems to have doubted the virtues of collectivisation. |