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

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

The kolkhoz manager is always a cross between Paul Bunyan and Luther Burbank, and his sterling example inspires glorious acts of self-sacrifice from the lowliest peasant.

From Time Magazine Archive

We began a slow procession toward the kolkhoz office, dragging our belongings.

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys