The process of converting something from individual ownership or control to group or state ownership and control.
From collectivize plus the noun suffix -ation. This term is closely associated with Soviet agricultural policy in the 1930s and appears widely in 20th-century political history.
Mao's Great Leap Forward forced collectivization of Chinese agriculture without proper planning, resulting in one of history's worst famines—showing how ideology divorced from reality becomes catastrophic.
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