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Landed peasant in the czars' Russia
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kulak
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Kulaks "fist", by extension "tight-fisted"; kurkuls in Ukraine, also used in Russian texts (in Ukrainian contexts) were a category of affluent landlords in the later Russian Empire , Soviet Russia , and the early Soviet Union . The word kulak originally ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1877, from Russian kulak (plural kulaki ) "tight-fisted person," literally "fist," from Turki (Turkish) kul "hand."
Usage examples of kulak.
The son feels stifled by his bourgeois surroundings -- perhaps even by the kind of furniture and the kind of pictures on the walls, of fat kulaks sitting down to their Sabbath meal, a sad contrast with the poverty he sees around him.
Stalin held his monstrous Soviet show trials, committed genocide against the kulaks, and created a forced famine for the Ukrainians when they resisted collectivization.