His father was a poor labourer who worked for a wealthy local family until Soviet rule confiscated the family's farmland in the 1930s during Joseph Stalin's collectivization policy.

It was easy, for instance, to rally the wealthier peasants against the collectivization policy of the Anarchists.

A large number of these, like many indigenous settlements still extant in the beginning of the 20th century, were closed as a result of Soviet collectivization policies.

As the peasantry, with the exception of the poorest part, resisted the collectivization policy, the Soviet government resorted to harsh measures to force the farmers to collectivize.

Many agronomists were educated before the revolution, and even many of those educated afterwards did not agree with the forced collectivization policies.

This joke is an allusion to the consequences of the collectivization policy pursued by Joseph Stalin between 1928 and 1933.

The population increased during the times of Joseph Stalin's forced collectivization policies (1928 - 1940), when peasants were settled near the station.

Stalin's collectivization policy proved to be as disastrous as Bukharin predicted, but Stalin had by then achieved unchallenged authority in the party leadership.

Zelda Kahan publicly justified Stalin's collectivization policies, and denied Holodomor taking place.

The Laks nevertheless resisted Soviet collectivization policies.