The shadow status of the private sector influenced a perverted evolution of property relations formation, which distinguished by a private sector development process that dubbed state sector functions. This resulted in increasing volume of private farms and the process of transformation of collective or state farms into cooperative associations during and after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Sovietism in village has formed the specific understanding about economy, its administrative principles and rational behaviour skills, and also a relatively strict social differentiation. Economy management was understood as an execution of the directives from the superior power structures, allocation of tasks and control of their processing. Good execution of a task corresponded to bigger volume of material resources used and smaller amount of tasks received. This was achieved only when having good relations with power structures.

According to different accession to resource allocation process, the privileged society groups had formed. In the case of village, the privileged group consisted of representatives from collective or soviet farm ruling layer. Though aforementioned layer had to follow the Soviet power directives and to control the situation in farms, it was also active in private farming activities. The status and its indicative privileges guarantied the immunity of this ruling layer.

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