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Prosperous peasant farmer
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kulak
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Word definitions for kulak in dictionaries
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."
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context historical English) A prosperous peasant in the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union, who owned land and could hire workers.
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.