kolhosp

English

Etymology

From Ukrainian колго́сп m (kolhósp), plural колго́спи pl (kolhóspy), contraction of Ukrainian колекти́вне господа́рство n (kolektývne hospodárstvo, “collective farm”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kolˈhosp/

Noun

kolhosp (plural kolhosps or kolhospy)

1. (now historical, Ukrainian) A collective farm in the former Soviet Union; a kolkhoz.
   • 1936, East Europe and Contemporary Russia, volume 1, page 167:

     In a congratulatory telegram to Stalin, the plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, which was held on November 19, 1933, described the consequences of the “shortcomings” of Skrypnik in the following words: “In kolhosps, in agricultural organizations, in a whole number of cultural and economic institutions, there were employed wreckers, counter-revolutionaries, and nationalist remnants of the White Guards, Petlura followers, and double-faced individuals with the Party membership cards in their pockets. . . .

   • 1949, Hryhory Makhiv, “Agricultural Science in Ukraine: The Reminiscences of a Ukrainian Scholar,” The Ukrainian Quarterly, v 5, New York: Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, p 57:

     However, state assignments to kolhospy (cooperative collective farms), especially in grain, were so excessive that it was impossible to introduce perennial grasses into the scheme of crop rotation.

   • 1939, The Trident, volume 3, Chicago: Organization for the Rebirth of Ukraine, page 47:

     They said they were not soldiers, but mobilized kolhosp workers who knew nothing about military matters.

   • 2015, Natalia Khanenko-Friesen, “In Search of History’s Other Agents: Oral History of Decollectivization in Ukraine in the 1990s”, in Natalia Khanenko-Friesen, Gelinada Grinchenko, editors, Reclaiming the Personal: Oral History in Post-Socialist Europe, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 241:

     Father worked in the kolhosp.

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See also

• kolkhoz
• radhosp
• sovkhoz

Anagrams

• kholops