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kolkhoz

Also known as kolkhozy, kollektivnoye khozaystvo

thumb|A former kolkhoz near Jermuk, Armenia thumb|1931 propaganda poster: "Kolkhoznik, read the book! The book will help fulfill the plan of the second Bolsheviks|Bolshevik spring!" thumb|Cotton growers at the "Zarya Vostoka" (Eastern Dawn) kolkhoz, Checheno-Ingush ASSR, 1938 A kolkhoz (Russian plural: kolkhozy; anglicized plural: kolkhozes () was a form of collective farm in the Soviet Union. Kolkhozes existed along with state farms or sovkhozes. These were the major components of the agriculture in the Soviet Union. The term continued to exist in some post-Soviet states.

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A kolkhoz was a form of collective farm in the Soviet Union where agricultural production was organized communally rather than by individual farmers. These collective farms, along with state farms called sovkhozes, formed the backbone of Soviet agriculture and the term persisted in some countries even after the Soviet Union's collapse.

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Contents

Name
Organization of kolkhozes
Work structure
Brigade
Zveno
Kolkhoz conditions in the Stalin period
Basic statistics for the Soviet Union
Kolkhozes after 1991
See also
Notes
References
External links

==Name== thumb|Map of the kolkhozes (kolūkis) of the Lithuanian SSR. The portmanteau is a contraction of . This Russian term was adopted into other languages as a loanword; however, some other languages calqued equivalents from native roots, such as Ukrainian , from . In Belarus, the term was known as , in Lithuania – .