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Russian peasant
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kulak
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Wiktionary
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n. (context historical English) A prosperous peasant in the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union, who owned land and could hire workers.
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."
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Kulak or KULAK may refer to: Kulak , a rich Russian peasant Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Kulak Geography: Kulak, Hormozgan , a village in Hormozgan Province, Iran Kulak, Sistan and Baluchestan , a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran Kulak-e ...
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.