[ noun ] the organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism <noun.act>
But Colby said he was not prepared to interpret this as a move back to collectivization of Chinese agriculture.
One of his grandfathers was arrested during Stalin's forced collectivization of agriculture in 1929-32, he has told interviewers, and the experience apparently left its mark.
Ovambos say security forces are visiting villages with the message that SWAPO plans communist-style collectivization and should be opposed.
Although food shortages persist, six decades later Soviet authors have only tentatively touched on the collectivization issue.
But such changes don't come anywhere near China's wholesale dismantling of collectivization.
Millions, perhaps 20 million people, were killed in Stalin's forced collectivization of farms and political purges.