WELFARE OF CATEGORIES OF RUSSIAN STATE-FARM SOCIETY IN 1930-1950S (ON MATERIALS OF EUROPEAN NORTH OF RSFSR)

• Main Author: A I Trofimova
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2014-12-01
• Series: RUDN Journal of Russian History
• Subjects: совхозы; благосостояние; совхозная собственность; продовольственное снабжение; личное подсобное хозяйство
• Online Access: http://journals.rudn.ru/russian-history/article/view/4251

This article deals with the welfare of members of the Russian state-farm society as representatives of the state system of agriculture. There are considered such problems as material support of employees of state farms, property differentiation, theft. The author shows that during that period the welfare of employees of Russian state farms considerably changed for the better. In the early 1930s employees of state farms had great financial problems, whereas in the 1950s state farms showed rather high welfare of members of the state-farm society. In the state-farm community there was differentiation on welfare which generally depended on belonging of workers to this or that professional category. Thanks to high level of the social mobility provided with social promotion (education, also at the expense of state farms, party joining, hard work), everyone had a real possibility of achievement of higher financial level.