| Many rural people had great expectations in the late 1980s, when the first reforms allowed private farmers to begin on kolkhoz and sovkhoz land. |
| The remote village of Selish, which was once a large kolkhoz, is now populated by the elderly. |
| In a collective farm, at least as organized in the former Soviet republics, the land was owned by the state but was permanently leased to the kolkhoz. |
| Here, there was of them one who had been able to take the control of the kolkhoz... By agreement with the former kulaks, he threatened people who did not enter the kolkhoz with enthusiasm. |
| These more localized famines were also not due to bad weather conditions, but rather to disproportionate levies on kolkhoz production. |
| In Khatlon, one of the 4 best performing kolkhoz paid 32 Somoni per month and about 200 kg of wheat flour and 20 kg of meat per year depending on the size of the family. |
