ku|lak

ku|lak
ku|lak «koo LAHK», noun.
1. (in the former Soviet Union) a well-to-do peasant, farmer, or trader, especially one who opposed Soviet collectivization: »

The kulaks and nepmen…were shipped off by the millions to die in Siberian labor camps (Harper's).

2. (under the former Soviet government) a peasant who owned and tilled his land for his own profit.
[< Russian kulak prosperous peasant; (literally) fist < Turkic]

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