Definition of kolkhoz in English:
kolkhoz
nounPlural kolkhozy, Plural kolkhozes ˈkɒlkɒzkʌlkˈhɔːzkəlˈkɔz
A collective farm in the former Soviet Union.
Example sentencesExamples
- Together they worked on a kolkhoz.
- The relatively large scale of the kolkhozy was also consistent with Marxist beliefs in the existence of economies of scale in agriculture and in the desirability of mechanization.
- Growing up on a kolkhoz, he had been doing a man's work since the age of twelve.
- Ivan Denisovich's thoughts lie in his hometown of Temnenovo, where he learns from his wife's letters that the men of the village are abandoning the kolkhoz, or collective farms.
- In the aftermath of collectivization and grain requisitioning, the Communist Party was suspicious of ‘hostile’ peasants and ‘backward’ women who led uprisings against kolkhozy.
Origin
1920s: Russian, from kol(lektivnoe) khoz(yaĭstvo) 'collective farm'.