Analysis of Soviet management model of the public ownership of the means of production

This scientific paper aims to understand public ownership of the means of production in the Soviet economic system. There is a presentation of such indicators as the functioning of collective farms, their quantitative and qualitative change over time, gross output, production and economic costs. Scientific paper uses information from national statistical compilations Kolkhozes in the second Stalinist five-year plan of 1939 and Kolkhozes of the USSR of 1988. The economic efficiency of kolkhozes and factors of production changes are explained according to this. The article also examines the legal status of public ownership in accordance with USSR Constitutions of 1936 and 1977. The effects of the ‘tragedy of commons’ and the ‘reform loop’ are considered. The following studies present conclusions of the profitability and production efficiency of kolkhozes.