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kulak

Russian term for a peasant who could afford to hire labour and often acted as village usurer. The kulaks resisted the Soviet government's policy of collectivization, and in 1930 they were ‘liquidated as a class’, with up to 5 million being either killed or deported to Siberia.



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VALLEY VILLAGE -- Though Paul Kulak feared shutdown and eviction for months, he said Tuesday that he'll be able to keep his eclectic club, Kulak's Woodshed, open.
Reprint requests: Ozan Bagis Ozgursoy, MD, Ankara Universitesi Ibni Sina Hastanesi, Kulak Burun Bogaz AD, 06100, Ankara, Turkey.
The Commissariat's position on the kulak [the successful market-oriented peasant], which was essentially the Right's position, contained a fatal flaw.
 
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