Kolkhoz

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A kolkhoz (Template:Audio, Template:Lang-ru) was a form of collective farming in the Soviet Union that existed along with state farms (sovkhoz). The word is a contraction of коллекти́вное хозя́йство, or "collective household." The latter term is usually translated "collective farm."

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

Nowadays, when most of kolkhozs are ruined, the term kolkhoznik in Russian language is used as an analogue for the American term redneck.

See collectivisation in the USSR and agriculture of the Soviet Union for general discussion of Soviet agriculture and its history and efficiency.Template:Soviet-stub

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