The Following Is an Excerpt from Fedor Belov's Account of Life

question 57

Multiple Choice

The following is an excerpt from Fedor Belov's account of life on a collective farm in the Soviet Ukraine in the early 1930s (Evaluating the Evidence 27.2) : "In these kolkhozes the great bulk of the land was held and worked communally, but each peasant household owned a house of some sort, a small plot of ground and perhaps some livestock. All the members of the kolkhoz were required to work on the kolkhoz a certain number of days each month; the rest of the time they were allowed to work on their own holdings. They derived their income partly from what they grew on their garden strips and partly from their work in the kolkhoz. . . ."
Which of the following most accurately describes peasant life on a kolkhoz?

• A)Most of the land was owned by the state, but each peasant family had a small amount of land of their own.
• B)All of the land was owned by the state, and each peasant family was given a share of the harvest.
• C)All of the land was owned by individual peasant families, and each family gave a portion of their harvest to the state.
• D)Most of the land was owned by the state, and the rest was under the collective control of the community.

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