kolkhoz
Example Sentences
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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
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
There were other new incentives for joining a kolkhoz: its store often provided the only source for tea, sugar, and tobacco in the area.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 15, 2019
A large, ruddy-faced man with a deceptively jovial manner, Stengach wields power on the kolkhoz, answering only to the local party authorities.
From Time Magazine Archive
“You have to collect your ration coupon at the kolkhoz office.”
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
