| Each year woman, children and even competing small farmers are forced to harvest the crop on big collective farms. |
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| These are only a handful from a vast collection including many regional cheeses made on a small scale by herdsmen or on collective farms. |
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| Reindeer became the property of collective farms, and herders were organized into brigades. |
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| They think it's some nice warm country with an avuncular leader who likes baseball and he runs a collective farms. |
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| Some went to live on collective farms, the kibbutzim, which were among Israel's most imaginative innovations. |
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| The lamb-To community was established for those Nenets who did not join collective farms during the Soviet period. |
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| They include income-generating projects such as micro-loans at preferential rate and with no guarantee required, small grants, collective farms. |
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| It appears that this type of underreporting is actually very similar to that described in connection with collective farms. |
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| More commonly, you will see roofless concrete shells, the ruins of communist-era collective farms or tractor stations. |
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| Soviet posters celebrating collective farms, all Cyrillic script and tractors, decorate the walls. The symbols are meant in earnest. |
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| The new system quickly made members of collective farms debtors of the collective farm and the state instead of providing them with payment for their labour. |
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| Although the collective farms are still doing badly, the smallholders are recovering confidence. |
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| On collective farms and in factories I witnessed the thing called the communist economy. |
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| They started in 1979 when the state backed off from its policy of collective farms. |
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| It is well known that the small plots of land that people owned produced more than the collective farms that were put together. |
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| I am not speaking of collective farms but of the cooperative movement that unites people at the level of production. |
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| The land reform process has been slowed down by local governments which have been reluctant to cede their control over the old collective farms. |
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| In these two countries, the break-up of collective farms resulted in the break-up of the social services they provided. |
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| Some soldiers hoped, vainly, that the next step might be the abolition of collective farms. For all her efforts, some details of life in the Red Army are as unremembered now as they were unrecorded then. |
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| Since then, legislation has been introduced to return the land to the original owners, to transform the collective farms in privately owned co-operatives, and to privatize the state farms. |
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| In 1995, all state and collective farms were transformed, by presidential decree, into peasant associations, but these still operate as before, with management staff still appointed by the state. |
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| The rest were given jobs in factories and collective farms. |
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| For the mass of Chinese peasants to give up their private holdings in favor of collective farms, they must be convinced that this will result in a higher standard of living for themselves and their families. |
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| Kosygin's reforms on agriculture gave considerable autonomy to the collective farms, giving them the right to the contents of private farming. |
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| Within an incredibly short time rural commissars forced millions of peasants to give up their small land holdings and to join collective farms after expelling them from land their families had tilled for centuries. |
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| Farmers tend their own gardens as weeds overtake collective farms. |
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| The first section focuses on the relationship between the state and the collective farms and the administrative structure of the kolkhozy in the period under study. |
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| The Communist leadership perceived famine as a means of class struggle and used starvation as a punishment tool to force peasants into collective farms. |
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