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kol·khoz

(kŏl-kôz′, kŭl-KHôs′)

A Soviet collective farm.

[Russian, from kol(lektivnoe) khoz(yaĭstvo) : kollektivnoe, neuter of kollektivnyĭ, collective + khozyaĭstvo, economy, household farm.]

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kolkhoz

(kɒlˈhɔːz; Russian kalˈxɔs) or

kolkhos

;

kolkoz

(kɒlˈkɔːz)

(Agriculture) a Russian collective farm

[C20: from Russian, short for kollektivnoe khozyaistvo collective farm]

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Kolkhoz

a collective farm in the USSR.

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Noun

kolkhoz - a collective farm owned by the communist state

collective farm - a farm operated collectively

Russia, Soviet Union, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR - a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991

kolkhoznik - a member of a kolkhoz

Translations

kolkhoz

kolchoz

kolkhoz

Kolchos

kolĥozo

koljós

kolhoos

kolhoosi

kolkhoze

קולחוז

kolhoz

kolchoz

コルホーズ

kolūkis

kolchoz

kolkos

kołchoz

kolkhoz

colhoz

колхозный колхоз

kolchos

kolhoz

колгосп

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According to the Ukrainian leadership, the intention was not only to supply a workforce to particularly devastated areas, but also to implement a real economic transfer that would replenish the livestock of the Kolkhozy, which had been almost completely destroyed." (41)

Belongings: people and possessions in the Armenian repatriations, 1945-49

In the late 1920s and early 1930s, a significant number of Khortytsia and Molochna Mennonites were also employed in executive positions at village and district soviet institutions, including executive committees, soviets, committees of poor peasants, workers and peasants' inspection committees, revision commissions, district land division committees, and kolkhozy. Mennonites also worked at machine tractor stations, the People's court, chistka ("cleansing" or "purge") committees, and the political police.

Path of Thorns: Soviet Mennonite life under communist and Nazi rule

The "kolkhozy" were then founded on abandoned cotton plantations and worked by citizens of the then Soviet State Uzbekistan.