ABSTRACT
In spite of individual variations of particular members' relationship to the collective, arising from their different temperaments and outlook, certain general types of relationship can be distinguished. The relationship of the villagers to the various sectors is well exemplified by the difference between 'peasant' and 'worker' attitudes to work. The attitudes to collectives and the form of members' engagement is only partly understandable in terms of the individual members' link to the collective; it is rather the family's strategy of labour allocation that is more indicative of the role collectives play in the villagers' life. The deliberative rights of the members' assembly were made questionable from the outset by external control by the strengthening of the collectives' management, whose authority has grown at the expense of the members' assembly. For members who have not been landowners before collectivization, and for younger members in particular, relationship to the collective is less problematic than for the former landowners and older members.
