ALL meanings of kulak
ku·lak
K k - noun kulak A peasant in Russia wealthy enough to own a farm and hire labor. Emerging after the emancipation of serfs in the 19th century, the kulaks resisted Stalin’s forced collectivization, but millions were arrested, exiled, or killed. 1
- noun kulak a comparatively wealthy peasant who employed hired labor or possessed farm machinery and who was viewed and treated by the Communists during the drive to collectivize agriculture in the 1920s and 1930s as an oppressor and class enemy. 1
- noun kulak (before the revolution of 1917) a prosperous, ruthless, and stingy merchant or village usurer. 1
- noun kulak (in Russia after 1906) a member of the class of peasants who became proprietors of their own farms. After the October Revolution the kulaks opposed collectivization of land, but in 1929 Stalin initiated their liquidation 0
- noun kulak a well-to-do peasant farmer in Russia who profited from the labor of poor peasants and opposed the Soviet collectivization of the land 0