Practices of formation of managerial personnel in collective farms of the Middle Urals in 1965-1982: on the issue of preserving collective farm democracy

Introduction. In the article, on the basis of archival materials on the example of the Middle Urals, the issue of the practices of the formation of managerial personnel in collective farms is considered. The authors of the study question the widespread thesis that collective farms more and more resembled state farms - that is, managers were mainly appointed by higher authorities, and ordinary collective farmers could not influence this in any way.