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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To free from collective control.
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Other ex-members assert that the population peaked earlier, and that a population decline preceded the decision to decollectivize taken in 1983.
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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In September 1983 they voted to decollectivize as of 1 October.
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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Ninety percent of those in attendance voted to decollectivize.
Sex, Drugs, and Soybeans Windolf, Jim 2007
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Toward the end of the 1970s, China and Vietnam, alerted to the premature character of the centralized socialist planned economies (which also included agriculture), began to decollectivize their cooperative farms and communes and allow peasant families to cultivate land individually.
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Toward the end of the 1970s, China and Vietnam, alerted to the premature character of the centralized socialist planned economies (which also included agriculture), began to decollectivize their cooperative farms and communes and allow peasant families to cultivate land individually.
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