the act or process of organizing a people, industry, enterprise, etc., according to collectivism, an economic system in which control, especially of the means of production, is shared cooperatively or centralized: After World War I Russia introduced a full-scale command economy, including the collectivization of ...

What does collectivisation mean?

Definitions of collectivisation. the organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism. synonyms: collectivization. type of: constitution, establishment, formation, organisation, organization. the act of forming or establishing something.

What is Stalin's collectivisation?

Stalin ordered the collectivisation of farming, a policy pursued intensely between 1929-33. Collectivisation meant that peasants would work together on larger, supposedly more productive farms. Almost all the crops they produced would be given to the government at low prices to feed the industrial workers.