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‖ agrogorod|ægrəʊˈgɔərəd| Pl. -a. [Russ., f. agro- as in agronomic a. + górod town.] A group of amalgamated collective farms (kolkhozes) forming an administrative unit; a ‘rural city’. Also, by partial translation, agro-city, -town.
1951Soviet Stud. Oct. III. 158 Under the leadership of the Politburo member Nikita Khrushchev, a campaign was begun for a great enlargement of the individual kolkhozy by ‘voluntary’ mergers, by corresponding consolidation of villages into what were proudly called ‘agro-cities’. 1951Sun (Baltimore) 20 Mar. 12/2 What Stalin has now launched is a program of combining Russia's 250,000-odd collective farms into not more than 100,000 giant farm enterprises, to be called agro-towns or agricultural towns. 1952Ann. Reg. 1951 198 Khrushchev himself had dismissed contemptuously the earlier grandiose dreams of ‘agrogoroda’, or rural cities, and had substituted the idea of ‘kolkhoz settlements’. 1959E. Crankshaw Khrushchev's Russia 83 He [sc. Khrushchev] had had his wild ideas, like the premature scheme for agrogoroda; but he had had his good schemes too. |