{{Short description|Term for industrial business groups}} {{About|a form of industrial administration|all other|Combine (disambiguation){{!}}Combine}} {{nofootnotes|date=April 2020}} {{Soviet-type economics |expanded=Organizations}} [[Image:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1987-0125-004, VEB Robotron Elektronik Dresden, Endmontage.jpg|thumb|One of the 17,000 workers at the Kombinat Robotron in the German Democratic Republic in 1987 working to produce typewriters]] '''Combine''' ({{langx|ru|Комбинат|Kombinat}}; {{langx|ro|Combinat}}; {{langx|uk|Комбінат}}) 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.

== Influence == The model of the ''kombinat'' was an influence on the development of the Chinese ''danwei''.<ref name=":02">{{Cite book |last=Russo |first=Alessandro |title=Afterlives of Chinese Communism: Political Concepts from Mao to Xi |date=2019 |publisher=Australian National University Press |isbn=9781760462499 |editor-last=Sorace |editor-first=Christian |location=Acton, Australia |chapter=Class Struggle |editor-last2=Franceschini |editor-first2=Ivan |editor-last3=Loubere |editor-first3=Nicholas}}</ref>{{Rp|page=32}}

==See also== *Production association ==References== <references/>

==External links== * [https://archive.today/20130116163112/http://lingvopro.abbyyonline.com/en/Translate/uk-uk/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B1%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82 Комбiнат at a dictionary of the Ukrainian language] {{in lang|uk}} * [https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Production+Association Production Association (combine)]. The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased. * [https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/combine Combine (industry)]. The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

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Category:Conglomerate companies Category:Manufacturing companies of Russia Category:Manufacturing companies of the Soviet Union

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