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

New rules let kolkhoz members own up to six hundred reindeer, rather than demanding all animals become collective property.

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