Kolkhoz

A kolkhoz (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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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.

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Russian: Russian can mean:...

Collective farming: Collective farming is an organizational unit in agriculture in which peasants are not paid wages, but rather receive a share of the farm's net output....

Soviet Union: The Soviet Union, also called The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (?????????? ?????; tr.: Sovetsky Soyuz or (????) ; tr.: Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik ), was an officially socialist state founded in 1922, centered on Russia, and dissolved in 1991. From 1945 until its d...