Combine (enterprise)

Summary

Combine (Russian: Комбинат, romanizedKombinat) is a term for industrial business groups, conglomerates or trusts in the former socialist countries. Examples include VEB Kombinat Robotron, an electronics manufacturer, and IFA, a manufacturer of vehicles, both in East Germany, and the Erdenet copper combine in Mongolia.

One of the 17,000 workers at the Kombinat Robotron in the German Democratic Republic in 1987 working to produce typewriters

Influence edit

The model of the kombinat was an influence on the development of the Chinese danwei.[1]: 32 

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Russo, Alessandro (2019). "Class Struggle". In Sorace, Christian; Franceschini, Ivan; Loubere, Nicholas (eds.). Afterlives of Chinese Communism: Political Concepts from Mao to Xi. Acton, Australia: Australian National University Press. ISBN 9781760462499.

External links edit

  • Комбiнат at a dictionary of the Ukrainian language[permanent dead link] (in Ukrainian)
  • Production Association (combine). The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
  • Combine (industry). The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.