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
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
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
A few hundred feet from the Dulls' house are two privately run greenhouses, set up by a five-man rental group that recently entered into an agreement with the kolkhoz to grow cucumbers and tomatoes.
From Time Magazine Archive
We were on a kolkhoz, a collective farm, and I was to become a beet farmer.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
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