Combine (enterprise)

This article is about a form of industrial administration. For all other, see Combine.

Combine (Russian: Комбинат, romanized: Kombinat) 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

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

See also

• Production association

References

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

• 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 It might be outdated or ideologically biased.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 It might be outdated or ideologically biased.