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Word: kolkhoznik (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people? Behind their own houses [working their private plots]. He had better get tough. It was the middle of August and there was no time to lose. He'd start to comb the upper part of the village, enter each house, and demand to know from each kolkhoznik why he is not working down at the silo. The farm workers' rejoinders, he knew, would be the same as always: 'Let the hay rot. let the peas go to ruin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Ah, Poor Anany | 4/12/1963 | See Source »

...their work. But people will not work for the kolkhoz because they are not well paid. How can I break the circle? Party officials tell me. 'You're not a good leader. Your agitation-educational work is slack.' But how do you propagandize today's kolkhoznik? Without the ruble the agitation doesn't reach him . . . That's the whole question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Ah, Poor Anany | 4/12/1963 | See Source »

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