USA HISTORY

Which country used collectivization to forcibly take over private land to create state-controlled farms?

(A) Japan

(B) Italy

(C) ** Soviet union

(D) Germany

Concept note-1: -collectivization, policy adopted by the Soviet government, pursued most intensively between 1929 and 1933, to transform traditional agriculture in the Soviet Union and to reduce the economic power of the kulaks (prosperous peasants).

Concept note-2: -Collectivization-The policy of transferring the own-ership of private farmland to the state. The Soviet state in the 1930s seized land and set up collective farms where workers would produce grain for the state to distribute. The policy proved disastrous for grain pro-duction levels.

Concept note-3: -kulak, (Russian: “fist”), in Russian and Soviet history, a wealthy or prosperous peasant, generally characterized as one who owned a relatively large farm and several head of cattle and horses and who was financially capable of employing hired labour and leasing land.

Concept note-4: -The correct option is B Joseph Stalin Who started the collectivisation programme in Russia?