Collectivisation
What Collectivisation means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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Merging peasant farms into kolkhozy and sovkhozy, backed by dekulakisation, grain requisitioning and deportation, to extract grain and labour from agriculture.
A policy that forced peasants into state-run farms called kolkhozes to fund industrialisation, triggering famine and the dekulakisation campaign.
Topics that use Collectivisation
- 1H Tsarist and Communist Russia, 1855–1964 – The emergence of Communist dictatorship, 1917–1941 (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
- Industrial and agricultural change, 1917–85 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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- State control
- Agricultural investment and the Virgin Lands Scheme
- Centralisation of power
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- Command economy and industrialisation
- Continuity and change
- faction
- Five Year Plans
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