collective farm

collective farm

noun

Definition of COLLECTIVE FARM

: a farm especially in a Communist country formed from many small holdings collected into a single unit for joint operation under governmental supervision

First Known Use of COLLECTIVE FARM

1925

Rhymes with COLLECTIVE FARM

roll-over arm, shot in the arm

collective farm

noun    (Concise Encyclopedia)

In the former Soviet Union, a cooperative agricultural enterprise operated on state-owned land. Under the policy of collectivization, which was pursued most intensively by Joseph Stalin in 1929–33, peasants were forced to give up their individual farms and join large collective farms. They objected violently and in many cases slaughtered their livestock and destroyed their equipment before joining. By 1936 almost all the peasantry had been collectivized, though millions had also been deported to prison camps. With the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1990–91, the collective farms began to be privatized.

Variants of COLLECTIVE FARM

collective farm Russian kolkhoz.