sovkhozn.

1921 Russian Economist I. 385 Sovkhoses, i.e., Soviet farms, that include agriculture of industrial workmen as well as the States' farms proper.

1926 Spectator 29 May 922/1 In Soviet Russia any estate is liable to be turned into a Sovkhos, a government model farm.

1932 H. G. Wells Work, Wealth & Happiness Mankind iv. 184 The Sovkhoz is a state plantation, a really scientifically planned and directed modern large-scale organization of production... The Sovkhozy have to take up lands hitherto uncultivated.

1938 Nature Mar. 453/2 The ‘organization of the sovkhozes’ (large-scale State agricultural enterprises).

1943 E. M. Almedingen Frossia v. 219 New tractors..meant help for thousands of our Sovhoz farms.

1953 O. Caroe Soviet Empire xi. 175 Land and water had been nationalized and, after taking a large share for the Sovkhozes or state farms, redistributed in an arbitrary fashion.

1955 H. Hodgkinson Doubletalk 28 The collective farms are not to be confused with the State farms or sovkhoz..which are owned by the State and worked by government employees.

1967 Bull. Inst. Study USSR (Munich) June 15 A wave of sovkhoz development followed which, beginning in 1954, did not recede until 1964.

1977 tr. Le Monde in Guardian Weekly 27 Nov. 12/5 They..lay siege to the stores in search of rare or common articles which cannot be found in their kolkhoz or sovkhoz (state farm) general stores.