collective farm

• Крупное сельскохозяйственное предприятие, в котором земля и средства производства находятся в коллективной собственности группы фермеров, обычно ассоциируемое с социалистическими или коммунистическими системами, особенно в бывшем Советском Союзе.

A large agricultural enterprise in which the land and means of production are owned collectively by a group of farmers, typically associated with socialist or communist systems, especially in the former Soviet Union.

1. Agricultural cooperativeB2formal

   A large farm formed by combining many small farms, owned and operated collectively by a group of farmers, often under state control.

   Колхоз

   • The government encouraged peasants to join the collective farm.
   • Life on a collective farm was strictly regulated.
   • Many collective farms were dissolved after the economic reforms.