Kolkhoz

A kolkhoz{{Audio|ru-kolkhoz.ogg|listen}} (Russian: ???????) was a form of collective farming in the Soviet Union that existed along with state farms or sovkhozes. The word is a contraction of ????????????? ??????????, or "collective household". The latter term is a usually translated "collective farm".

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Russian - Collective farming - Soviet Union - Sovkhoz

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In a kolkhoz, a member, called kolkhoznik, was paid a share of the farm's product and profit according to the number of workdays (Russian: ??????????; transliteration: trudoden), while sovkhozes employed salaried workers.

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See Collectivisation in the USSR and Agriculture of the Soviet Union for general discussion of Soviet agriculture, its history and efficiency.

Related Topics:
Collectivisation in the USSR - Agriculture of the Soviet Union

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