Word: kulak
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...Britain's Economist last month. "It will strengthen the dominion of Ethiopia's ignorant rulers. The weather is the only calamity not directly caused by Colonel Mengistu . . . and his cronies. Their Russian advisers have taught them to run vast state farms that produce no food. Imitating Stalin's anti-kulak terror, they have shot 'hoarders and saboteurs' prudent enough to store grain . . . Help for the starving may make some of them suffer more, and reinforce the grip of the government that caused them to starve. Yet something must be done...
Stalin, Conquest says, viewed the country's 120 million peasants as irremediably hostile to the regime. Individualistic and intractable, they would have to be torn from their bit of private land and either tamed by force or annihilated. Stalin's first target was the kulaks, caricatured as rich, greedy and brutal farmers who lived off the labor of others. Actually, they were the hardest working and the most productive of the peasants. The wealth of the average kulak family consisted of one to three cows and ten to 25 acres of land. Nevertheless, beginning in 1929, more than 13 million...
...film is unsuccessful even when a prisoner merely tells of his own oppression. The work group sits around a fire in a half constructed building and Tiurin, the group leader, relates the events leading to his imprisonment the was discharged from the army for being a kulak's son and arrested after jumping a train without travelling papers). Ivan's concurrent narration renders the story as poignant as a rehearsed documentary...
...last couple of years, Pegler has largely confined himself to innocuous columns about George Spelvin, a Peglerian prototype of an average American: grumpy, antisocial and suspicious as a kulak. George still has a small, eccentric following, and chances are that he (and Pegler) will be kept by some papers even though he has been dropped by Hearst. But the demand is likely to be small. By week's end, the Hearst papers had received only a handful of letters and a few phone calls protesting the loss of their onetime titan...
...family and friends conspire to cure him of his vision, and he ends up, like any good little boy, building collective villages out of blocks and playing "Unmask the Kulak." In a thinly disguised satire of Communist Poland, Novelist Stanislaw Len describes the mythical planet of Pinta. Its soil is so arid that the government embarks on a series of irrigation projects...