State and Kolkhoz Associations

enterprises and organizations in the USSR established on the basis of shared participation by kolkhozes, state enterprises, and economic organizations in building industrial and cultural installations in processing farm produce, and other activities.

State and kolkhoz associations express the socialist relations of production that are taking shape between the state and the kolkhoz-cooperative sectors of socialist production, the two forms of socialist property ownership. They are characterized by the combination in a single process of socialist reproduction of kolkhoz means and those of the state. This will lead to a more socialized level of kolkhoz property (to its becoming closer to property belonging to all the people) and to the transformation of farm labor into a variety of industrial labor. The further development of these production links is regarded by the Program of the CPSU as one of the ways of creating a future single, communist ownership of property, which would belong to all the people. The Twenty-fourth Congress of the CPSU (1971) noted the great importance of the state and kolkhoz associations in the effective use of technical equipment, capital investments, and labor resources.

A state and kolkhoz association possesses the legal rights of a person and conducts its activities on a cost-accounting basis. It is formed on the basis of an agreement between a kolkhoz and a state enterprise; it can be liquidated by the decision of a meeting of the plenipotentiary powers of both sides, and this decision is subsequently confirmed by the oblast (or krai) executive committee of the appropriate Soviet of Workers’ Deputies.

The most widespread form of state and kolkhoz associations are kolkhoz and sovkhoz associations. Thus, the Ptitseprom Belgorodsk Kolkhoz and Sovkhoz Association, established in 1970 to further develop poultry raising in kolkhozes and sovkhozes on an industrial basis, has state enterprises (poultry sovkhozes poultry plants, incubator and poultry-breeding stations), and specialized poultry-raising kolkhozes that joined on a voluntary basis, each retaining complete economic independence.

Other types of state and kolkhoz associations also exist. Located in the Krasnodar Krai in 1970. and attached to state sugar plants, there were 12 interkolkhoz feeding stations, the partners of which consisted of 146 kolkhozes of the krai (out of 323) and four sovkhozes (out of 220). The Oblspetskhozob”edinenie Association in Tambov Oblast manages regional, interenterprise industrial complexes, and specialized sovkhozes and kolkhozes. Sugar and canning complexes were created (1970) within the system of the Ministry of the Food Industry of the USSR that organically combined the production and processing of farm produce. During the ninth five-year plan (1971–75) measures are being taken that will actively facilitate the creation and improvement of the activities of interkolkhoz and combined state and kolkhoz enterprises and organizations, as well as the creation of agrarian-industrial complexes and agrarian-industrial associations.