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Definition of Kolkhoz

1. Noun. A collective farm owned by the communist state.

Definition of Kolkhoz

1. Noun. A farming collective in the former Soviet Union. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Kolkhoz

1. a collective farm in Russia [n -KHOZY or -KHOZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kolkhoz

Literary usage of Kolkhoz

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Local Economic Development: A Geographical Comparison of Rural Community by Cecily Neil, Markku Tykkyläinen (1998)
"The reaction of individuals - the human factor The decisions of the kolkhoz influenced all village activities. The kolkhoz also worked as a part of the ..."

2. War Through Children's Eyes: The Soviet Occupation of Poland and the by Irina Grudzinka-Gross, Jan T. Gross (1985)
"There they took us to a kolkhoz. They took us 50 km. by wagons. ... The elder of the kolkhoz ordered the children's heads to be cut off. ..."

3. Survivor from an Unknown War: The Life of Isakjan Narzikul by Stephen Lee Crane (1999)
""This man stole from the kolkhoz and the state demands a fair and heavy penalty." The lawyer waved his hand at the defendant. ..."

4. Breaking with Communism: The Intellectual Odyssey of Bertram D. Wolfe by Bertram David Wolfe, Robert Hessen (1990)
"Along with the kolkhoz [collective farm] serfdom, the state now permitted each ... In his free time, after his slavery on the kolkhoz, the peasant could ..."

5. Estonia and the Estonians by Toivo U. Raun (2001)
"At the latter date they were divided into 934 agricultural kolkhozes and 84 fishing kolkhozes. With this consolidation the number of households per kolkhoz ..."

6. Human Rights in Tajikistan: In the Wake of Civil War by Rachel Denber (1993)
"15 Political violence was particularly intense on this kolkhoz, the home of famous (and deceased) Popular Front commander ..."

7. Human Rights in Uzbekistan by Erika Dailey, Helsinki Watch (Organization : U.S.) (1993)
"... an agricultural worker at the "Komsomol" kolkhoz in the Samarqand region, protesting arbitrary [actions] by the chairman of the kolkhoz ..."

8. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"... on the advice of the Far Eastern Marshal Bluecher, granted a concession. That is the situation today. The kolkhoz serfs are allowed to own half a ..."

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