: a state-owned farm of the U.S.S.R. paying wages to the workers.

What was the sovkhoz in Russia?

sovkhoz, abbreviation of Russian Sovetskoe Khozyaystvo (“soviet farm”), plural Sovkhozy, orSovkhozes, state-operated agricultural estate in the U.S.S.R. organized according to industrial principles for specialized large-scale production. Workers were paid wages but might also cultivate personal garden plots.

What are kolkhoz and sovkhoz?

As nouns the difference between sovkhoz and kolkhoz

is that sovkhoz is a large, state-owned farm in the soviet union while kolkhoz is a farming collective in the former soviet union.