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- noun Plural form of
kolkhoz .
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Examples
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Most of the fleet was privatized in the form of joint stock companies (56.7%), or transferred to cooperatives (kolkhozes; 23.7%), private companies (12.5%), or joint Russian – foreign ventures (2.4%) [185].
Fisheries and aquaculture in the North Pacific (Bering Sea) 2009
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Where'd they put you, somewhere kind of nice like Chirchik or the Gazalkent area or one of those god-forsaken 'shloqs or kolkhozes near Kibray?
Ahoy! 2004
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He wanted to draw people close together, to live in big kolkhozes.
Calling A Dead Man Cross, Gillian 2001
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Peasants could choose to be in kolkhozes (collectives) or to receive their own allotment of land.
1990s 2001
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The Soviets forced most of them to forsake their traditional nomadic ways for the settled life of reindeer kolkhozes (collective farms) and similar absurdities.
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"Free farmers, whose land that they had from then - fathers was torn from them, and they herded onto kolkhozes like slaves."
The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989
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It has grown incredibly; for example, areas of Moscow's periphery, where the kolkhozes are located.
VISIT TO MOSCOW FETE 1972
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To meet the Russian facility's supply requirements, the Bonduelle Group operates, through long-term lease agreements, two fully irrigated kolkhozes production farms of more than 3,000 hectares each, which provide the Russian processing facility with 60% of their raw-vegetable needs.
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But since the kolkhozes failed to produce as predicted by Marxist theory, and with many peasants still refusing to join, Stalin sought a scapegoat.
The New American 2009
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Thousands of peasants were shot for attempting to take a handful of grain or a few beets from the kolkhozes, to feed their starving families.
The New American 2009
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