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Definition of "kulak" []

  • A prosperous landed peasant in czarist Russia, characterized by the Communists during the October Revolution as an exploiter. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "kulak" in a sentence
  • "To try to persuade some of them to come back would make economic sense, but hardly accords with the prevailing ideology, which inveighs against a "kulak" or "comprador" class, be it black or white."
  • "In the 1920s and 30s, sheeplike Western travelers in Stalinist Russia had accepted its category of "kulak," or rich peasant, to describe a peasant who owned a pig or a cow and was therefore a class enemy deserving the supreme penalty."
  • "Taxation collected from the profitable private light industries and kulak run farms funded the state sponsored growth of heavy industry."
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