The History of a Soviet Collective Farm by Fedor Belov

By Fedor Belov

First released in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa corporation.

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Thus all the top posts in the village passedinto the hands of former front-line officers, who strove to improve the economic position of the collective farmers. , a young, energetic and intelligent officer who immediately won the respect of the peasants, was elected chairman of the village soviet. , a retired colonel, became chairman of one of the kolkhozes; the other chairmanship fell to me. During this period, I made the following entries in my diary: January 26. Tonight I went to a party at N.

The kolkhoz members received 3 to 6 rubles in cash per labor day. The kolkhoz enjoyed its greatest prosperity during the years 1936-1938. In these years it had a five-field system of crop rotation and planted an area of 72 hectares in sugar beets. The total vegetable plantings ran as high as 200 hectares. Since it had excellent draft power-160 horsesand 80 oxen -the kolkhoz tried to cultivate its land with its own motive power and thus avoid the large payments in kind for the use of the tractors provided by the Machine-Tractor Stations (MTS).

Vegetables, honey, vegetable oil, and fruit were shipped to Leningrad, Minsk and Kiev. To obtain space on railroad cars for the transportation of the produce to districts where the selling price was high was almost impossible by ordinary means and required considerable ingenuity-a knowledge of what strings to pull and whose palm to greaseon the part of the kolkhoz chairman. ” Two or three literate kolkhoz members and a member of the inspection committee always accompanied the produce to market.

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