The People's Federal Republic of Yugoslavia enforced the collectivization ( sh, колективизација / kolektivizacija, italic=no) of its agricultural sector between 1946 and 1952. The policy, as per directions issued in February 1946, aimed to consolidate individual landholdings and labour into collective farms (Peasants' Work Cooperatives). The Yugoslav government followed the pattern of the

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, with two types of farms, the state farms and collective farms. The peasants' holdings were operated under government supervision, the state farms owned by the governments were operated by hired labour. Of the European

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s, Yugoslavia ranked second, behind

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, in proportion of peasant households in collectives. In 1950, 21.9% of arable land and 18.1% of households were under collectivization. The

Cazin rebellion The Cazin rebellion ( sh, Cazinska buna) was an armed anti-state rebellion of peasants that occurred in May 1950 in the towns of Cazin and Velika Kladuša in the Bosanska Krajina region, as well as Slunj in Croatia, at that time part of Commu ...

of May 1950 was a

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against the state's collectivization efforts and was a factor in the abandonment of collectivization that occurred throughout the 1950s in Yugoslavia.

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* Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Agriculture in Yugoslavia Agricultural cooperatives Agricultural labor Politics of Yugoslavia Collective farming 1940s in Yugoslavia 1950s in Yugoslavia {{Yugoslavia-stub

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