The Convergence of Collective Farm and State Farm Economic Mechanisms

Abstract

The pattern of development of public ownership and gradual convergence of collective farm and cooperative ownership with state (public) ownership is manifested in the convergence of collective and state farms' conditions of economic management. The intensiveness of this process increased with the strengthening of the material-technical base and the equalization of the productive forces on collective and state farms, with the general increase in agricultural production, and with the increase in its effectiveness. The implementation of the policy of the March (1965) Plenum of the Central Committee of the Commuist Party of the Soviet Union — the policy of industrialization and intensification of agriculture and the acceleration of scientific and technical progress — led to the considerable growth of capital per worker and power per worker and to the lessening of the gap between these indicators on collective and state farms. While prior to 1965 collective farms in the Ukrainian SSR lagged roughly 2 times beh...