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GCSE History · key term
A farm owned and run directly by the state.
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Paper 1
Revise: Modernisation of the USSROn a kolkhoz, peasants pooled their land, livestock and equipment; a sovkhoz was owned and run directly by the state. Stalin argued that larger farms could use machinery more efficiently and produce more food.
Paper 3
A farm owned and run directly by the state, where agricultural workers received government wages.
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A sovkhoz was different: it was a state farm, where workers received wages directly from the government. The important distinction is between members working collectively on a kolkhoz and wage-earning employees on a state-run sovkhoz.