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KYOO-lak
noun
a prosperous Russian farmer
1842Dead SoulsI wonder whether you were born a bear or whether you have come to it through your rustic life, with its tilling of crops and its trading with peasants? Yet no; I believe that, even if you had received a fashionable education, and had mixed with society, and had lived in St. Petersburg, you would still have been just the kulak that you are.1934On the Rocks...an attempt to exterminate the old Conservative professional class and the kulak or prosperous farmer class has been checked only by the discovery that they cannot as yet be done without.1986Red Storm RisingThey couldn't run the risk of State sponsorship for a whole new generation of kulaks.Labels: George Bernard Shaw, Larry Bond, Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Tom Clancy
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