ABSTRACT
In the first years of collectivized farming the internal organization of the new farms was experimental, and in many of them chaotic. It was in this period that the “collective farm compromise” was worked out: over nine-tenths of the arable area in each farm is worked collectively with machines from the local Machine and Tractor Station and with horses owned by the farm; the remaining area is divided into “household plots” at the cottage door, of about an acre or less for each family. By 1935 a system on these lines had crystallized sufficiently for the government to issue a detailed set of “Model Rules” which are still the legal basis of collective farming, and provide the standard pattern for the internal organization of the farms.
