Built up industry in the 1950s before he started taking land from private owners and making collective farms

Answer: Joseph Stalin

Explanation: Stalin forced rapid industrialization and the collectivization of agricultural land, resulting in millions dying from famine while others were sent to labor camps. Stalin's imposed Soviet system of land management known as collectivization resulted in the seizure of all privately owned farmlands and livestock, in a country where 80 percent of the people were traditional village farmers.