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Kulas vs Kulak - What's the difference?

kulas | kulak |

As nouns the difference between kulas and kulak

is that kulas is plural of lang=en while kulak is a prosperous peasant in the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union, who owned land and could hire workers.

kulas

English

Noun

(head)

    • Anagrams

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    kulak

    English

    (wikipedia kulak)

    Alternative forms

    * koulak * Kulak

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (historical) A prosperous peasant in the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union, who owned land and could hire workers.
  • * 2002 , (Christopher Hitchens), "Martin Amis: Lightness at Midnight", The Atlantic , Sep 2002:
    • The “internal organs,” as the CHEKA and the GPU and the KGB used to style themselves, were asked to police the mind for heresy as much as to torture kulaks to relinquish the food they withheld from the cities.
  • * {{quote-web
    • , date=21050206 , year= , first= , last= , author=Nick Gillespie , authorlink= , title=To the Barricades, Brooklyn Yuppies! , site=The Dailey Beast citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=21050206 , passage=We are the “upper middle class”, the new kulaks whose antisocial self-interest and lack of submission to the aims of the revolutionary vanguard must be extinguished. }}

    Usage notes

    During Soviet state collectivization of farming in the 1920s and 1930s the label kulak , implying “tight-fisted”, was applied pejoratively to attack land-owning peasants in general.

    Synonyms

    * kurkul

    Related terms

    * kulakism * kulakize, kulakise * kulakisation, kulakization * dekulakise, de-kulakise, dekulakize, de-kulakize * dekulakisation, de-kulakisation, dekulakization, de-kulakization * self-dekulakisation, self-dekulakization * subkulak

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "kulak")

    References

    Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition 1997 ----