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Asovkhoz[a] (Russian:совхо́з,IPA:[sɐfˈxos]ⓘ,abbreviated fromсоветское хозяйство,sovetskoye khozyaystvo;Ukrainian:радгосп,romanized: radhósp) was a form of state-owned farm in theSoviet Union.[1]
It is usually contrasted withkolkhoz, which is a collective-owned farm. Just as the members of a kolkhoz were called "kolkhozniks" or "kolkhozniki" (колхозники), the workers of a sovkhoz were called "sovkhozniki" (совхозники).
Soviet state farms started to be created in 1918[2] as an ideological example of "socialist agriculture of the highest order".
Kolkhozes, orcollective farms, were regarded for a long time as an intermediate stage in the transition to the ideal of state farming. Whilekolkhozy were typically created by combining small individual farms together in a cooperative structure, a sovkhoz would be organized by the state on land confiscated from former largeestates (so-called "state reserve land" that was left over after distribution of land to individuals) and sovkhoz workers would be recruited from among landless rural residents. The sovkhoz employees would be paid regulated wages, whereas the remuneration system in a kolkhoz relied on cooperative-style distribution of farm earnings (in cash and in kind) among the members.
In 1990, theSoviet Union had 23,500 sovkhozy, or 45% of the total number of large-scale collective and state farms. The average size of a sovkhoz was 15,300hectares (153 km2), nearly three times the average kolkhoz (5,900 hectares or 59 km2 in 1990).[3] Sovkhoz farms were more dominant in theCentral Asian part of the Soviet Union.
During the transition era of the 1990s, many state farms were reorganized usingjoint stock arrangements, although the development of land markets remained constrained by opposition to private ownership of land.
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