Collective farms

Toz

Sovkhoz

Kolkhoz

  • Peasants owned their own land

  • Shared machinery and co-operated in activities such as sowing and harvesting

  • State-run farm

  • Owned and run by the state

  • Created on land confiscated by the nobles

  • Collective farm

  • Run by an elective committee on behalf of the peasants

  • Smaller farm run by a cooperative


  • Paid a wage by the government

  • Workers often recruited from poorer landless rural residents

  • Workers recieved no wages

  • Credited with ‘workdays’ and recieved a share of the profits


  • Internal passports from 1932, forbidden to move without permission

  • Peasant opposition to become wage labourers led to focus on kolkhoz type collective farms in the 1930s

  • State paid low prices for the grain and sold the produce to towns at slightly higher prices

  • System of internal passports from 1932

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