Definition of "obrok" [‖Ob•rok]

• A rent. (noun)
• In Russia, a poll tax paid by peasants absent from their lord's estate. (noun)

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• "The first comprised those working under the old, or _corvée_, system, -- giving, generally, three days in the week to the tillage of the owner's domain; the second comprised those working under the new, or _obrok_, system, -- receiving"
• "As to being put on obrok, the serfs did not much object, though they preferred to remain as they were; but his proposal to break up the Mir astonished and bewildered them."
• "The peasants came to understand that what he wished was to break up the Mir, or rural Commune, and to put them all on obrok -- that is to say, make them pay a yearly sum instead of giving him a certain amount of agricultural labour."