Another word for "expropriate", or an antonym for "privatize"

While writing this comment on the "Despise the rich" question:

Well, during the October Revolution, the bolsheviks overthrew the bourgeoisie and the peasants overthrew the kulaks, expropriating and redistributing their wealth among the populace. In Marxist theory, the working class people who are eternally pitted against the historical owners of the means of production are known as the proletariat, derived from its origins in Roman law.

I ended up using the verb expropriate, but that wasn't the one I was reaching for. I have a recollection that there's another, more specific, and morphologically more obvious synonym (perhaps derived from the root public).

What are other words which describe the act of the government (often forcibly) taking ownership of private property, so that the property is under the collective ownership of the public?

After the Revolution, the new communist Cuban government ___ized many sugar mills, angering foreign interests who had invested in their creation.

_{Note: the word is not "eminent domain", which describes a policy which permits the act I'm describing, nor is it expropriate nor appropriate, which are often used in contemporary discussions of governments making use of eminent domain.}

Solution 1:

I think the term you are looking for is to nationalize:

• to bring under the ownership or control of a nation, as industries and land.

  • a movement to nationalize the oil industry.

(dictionary.reference.com)

Solution 2:

The word nationalize means bring under control of a nation, however, you might also consider collectivize, particularly if you are talking about the peasants in the former Soviet Union, where the agricultural policy was called collectivization.

Solution 3:

"Nationalizing" is not incorrect, but given Marxist ideology, probably would not have been used by the actors in question.

"Collectivizing" is probably what they would have used at the time.

"Seizing" would also work, particularly if you wanted to put a negative spin on things, however, it probably lacks the "for the good of the public" intention.

Solution 4:

A specific verb would be govermentalize.

to bring under governmental, or national, control [Collins]

Additionally, the following verbs are mentioned in the book Privatization: The Key to Better Government by Emanuel S. Savas:

• municipalize
• statify
• deprivatize