The Post-Stalin Era
Zvenya seem to have survived in some shape or form, whether `underground' or overtly, in the early 1950s. Row- and industrial-crop zvenya continued to be reported favourably in the press. After Stalin's death the `underestimation' of zvenya in row and industrial crops was condemned.
In the later 1950s a new breed of zvenya, the mechanized zvenya, began to arise. Though these zvenya were employed intermittently in place of the more usual brigades over the next thirty years, they never became widespread. (Eight percent of agriculture overall was under "assignmentless zvenya" (beznaryadnaya zvenya) in the 1960s/1970s.)
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