| The beginning of forced collectivisation in the early 1930s was carried through with unprecedented brutality and resulted in unimaginable hardships for the countryside. |
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| By the time of the First Five-Year Plan and collectivisation, when the Stalinist bureaucracy was consolidated as a class, there was little social provision for childcare. |
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| Mao's government carried out mass executions of landowners, instituted collectivisation and implemented the Laogai camp system. |
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| The last part of this volume is devoted to manifestations of resistance against collectivisation. |
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| Largely the same groups were responsible for the mass killing operations during the civil war, collectivisation, and the Great Terror. |
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| During the Soviets' 1930s collectivisation campaign, many Cossacks were killed or died of starvation, as did the kulaks. |
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| Stalin is widely reviled as he was responsible for millions of deaths in political purges, labour camps and forced agricultural collectivisation. |
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| These, unfortunately are not out of the question to those who remember the disastrous results of the forced collectivisation of Soviet farming between the world wars. |
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| He was a firm believer in rural Africans and their traditions and ujamaa, a system of collectivisation that according to Nyerere was present before European imperialism. |
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| Unlike Soviet collectivisation, neither massive destruction of livestock nor errors causing distorted output or distribution occurred in the other Eastern Bloc countries. |
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| Collectivisation often met with strong rural resistance, including peasants frequently destroying property rather than surrendering it to the collectives. |
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