AQA GCSE English Literature · 8702
Paper 2
The bringing together of individual farms into collective or state-controlled agricultural units; under Stalin, this was imposed through coercion.
Revise: ContextStalin also imposed collectivisation, bringing individual farms into collective or state-controlled units. Peasants resisted losing their land and produce, and the authorities suppressed opposition. Disruption to agriculture, grain procurement policies and other factors contributed to the devastating famine of 1932–33, affecting Ukraine, Kazakhstan and other regions.