Trudoden

Trudoden (Russian: Трудодень, portmanteau literally meaning labourday) was a unit of value and type of accounting of quantity and quality of labor (as a factor of production) in collective farms (kolkhozes) of the Soviet Union in 1930 – 1966. It literally means a day of labor. It was the only form of wage payments in collective farms, as the in-kind compensation for labor equaled the amount of trudodens per given time period.[1] Beside working for free, a Soviet peasant of collective farm was not permitted to leave his or her village without permission from a head of the local collective farm.

Members of collective farms were paid based on the amount of trudodni (plural form) earned.[2][3][4] Payments to the collective farm members were made with natural products such as grain, often of a very poor quality, when and if they were able to realize their products.[1]

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References

  1. ^ a b Melnyczuk, L. Silent Memories, Traumatic Lives. Western Australian Museum, 2012. ISBN 9781925040029
  2. ^ Nove, A. Was Stalin Really Necessary?: Some Problems of Soviet Economic Policy. Routledge, 2014. ISBN 9781136629488
  3. ^ Boterbloem, K. Life and Death under Stalin: Kalinin Province, 1945-1953. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1999. ISBN 9780773567597
  4. ^ Jeffries, I. The New Russia: A Handbook of Economic and Political Developments. Routledge, 2013. ISBN 9781136870651