Changes in the procedure for determining the minimum workdays in collective farms and labour behaviour of collective farmers (mid-1950s)

Introduction. At present, the study of the agrarian policy of post-Stalin’s ‘collective leadership’ is one of the most actual areas of the study of agrarian history of the USSR. The analysis of government decisions designed to expand the self-government of collective farms is becoming more and more relevant. The focus of our attention is on the goals, progress and results of the implementation of the resolution adopted on 23 June 1954 by the Council of Ministers of the USSR under the chairmanship of G. M. Malenkov ‘On the compulsory minimum of workdays for able-bodied collective farmers’, which gave collective farms the opportunity to determine discretion the workload for working members of the agricultural collective.