kolkhoz

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Many had fallen into a slowly degrading limbo: The kolkhoz, or collective farm, that once stood in the heart of Senkivka was abandoned, graffiti on its walls warning that the building was liable to collapse.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2022

On the Omvaam River, a Chukchi man named Tymnenentyn was one of the first to join the Amgeuma kolkhoz.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 15, 2019

Each artel would become a kolkhoz, or collective farm, where workers owned their means of production, and eventually a sovkhoz, the state farm, with centralized ownership and quotas.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 15, 2019

Despite its inefficiency, the Ukraina kolkhoz is one of the Soviet Union's most profitable collective farms.

From Time Magazine Archive

I saw Kretzsky exit the rear door of the kolkhoz office.

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys